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Dedication of the Building 

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THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



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CONTENTS 



The New Hampshire Historical Society 

Laying of the Corner Stone 

The New Building . 

The Dedication 

The Dedication Address 

The Banquet . 

Appendices: 

The New Hampshire Historical Society 

Letters .••••• 
Membership: 

Active Members 
Honorary Members . 
Life Members . 
Resident INIembers . 
Corresponding Members 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 



New Hajmpshire Histobic.u. Society Libr.iry 

The Old Home, 1840 to 1912 . 

EDW.U4D Tuck .... 

Mrs. Edward Tuck 

Benj-'^jViin a. Kimball 

]\L\iN Entrance to the Library 

Grand Stair Case 

Contributors' Tablet 

View of Entr.w^ce from Rotunda 

Kimball Tablet 

Rotunda ..... 

Upper Rotunda 

Reading Room 

Lecture Room 

View of Grand Stair Case from Landing 

William W. Niles . 

Samuel W. McCall 

William J. Tucker . 

Daniel Hall .... 

Jacob H. Gallingeb 

Henry B. Qulnby 

Samuel L. Powers . 

Robert P. Bass 

Samuel C. Eastman 

Daniel C. French . 

Guy Lowell .... 

fr.a.nk b. s.^nborn . 

Ch.a.rles F. Ad.vms . 

Charles R. Corning 

Edna Dean Proctor 

George L. Kittredge 

Seal of the Society 



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THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

By Charles R. Corning 

WEDNESDAY, the 21st of May, 1823, the two- 
hundredth anniversary of the settlement of New 
Hampshire, was observed with appropriate cere- 
monies in Portsmouth. The importance of this occasion 
attracted prominent citizens from all parts of the State. 
They were deeply impressed with the interesting historical 
address of Nathaniel A. Haven, Jr., the orator of the day, 
and agreed that an organization ought to be formed for the 
collection and preservation of manuscripts and documents 
relating to the history and biography of the State. The idea 
of an association created for this purpose appealed strongly 
to the distinguished company gathered in the ancient seaport 
capital, and a committee was chosen to petition the Legislature, 
then about to assemble in Concord, for a charter of incorpor- 
ation. This was the origin of the New Hampshire Historical 
Society. 

The act incorporating the Society was signed by Governor 
Levi Woodbury the 13th day of June, 1823. The incorpora- 
tors named in the act were Ichabod Bartlett, William Plumer, 
Jr., Bennet Tyler, Jeremiah Smith, Jeremiah Mason, Richard 
Bartlett, James Bartlett, Jacob B. Moore, Andrew Pierce, 
William Smith, Jr., and Nathaniel A. Haven, Jr. These gen- 
tlemen, together with associates interested in the purposes of 
the organization, signed the constitution, and the fifth His- 
torical Society in the United States began its useful work. 
The original members not named in the charter were Ben- 
jamin Abbot, Ebenezer Adams, Nathaniel Adams, David 

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Barker, Jr., Peter Chad wick, Charles WilHam Cutter, John 
Farmer, Asa Freeman, Hosea Hildreth, John Kelley, George 
Kent, Alexander Ladd, Parker Noyes, Nathan Parker, Oliver 
W. B. Peabody, William Plumer, Israel W. Putnam, Timothy 
Upham and Levi Woodbury. 

Among the thirty one original members were citizens 
already distinguished in various walks of life and many 
more upon whom the highest of public favors were later to 
be bestowed. Representative men indeed, were those whose 
love of State and interest in historical subjects caused them to 
found this Society. Concord, as the capital of the State, was 
selected as the home of the new organization. The early 
records of the Society were very brief, but it is clear that the 
annual meetings were regularly held. 

Before many years had passed the modest beginnings in the 
way of a library had so increased that more space within which 
to arrange the manuscripts and books became urgent. An 
appeal to the Legislature having been favorably received, a 
small committee room on the third floor of the State House 
was assigned to the young society for library purposes. A 
few years later the books and pamphlets had become so numer- 
ous and additions were swelling the total so rapidly that before 
long another change to more commodious quarters became 
necessary. It was at this turn of affairs that William Plumer, 
a former Governor of New Hampshire and the first President 
of the Society, with interested friends, presented a petition to 
the Legislature asking that a fireproof building should be built 
by the State for the safe keeping of the valuable property of 
the Society, but to that appeal came no response. 

During the decade 1835-1845, the condition of the Society 
occasioned solicitude to its supporters. Owing to the increase 
of books, a move to better and more convenient quarters 
became imperative, yet there were obstacles in the way, and 
the greatest was want of money. At length an arrange- 
ment was made with the Blazing Star Lodge of Free Masons 
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from the State House and deposited in the rooms of the 
Lodge. It does not appear that a change so singular as this 
met with success or approval, for the incongruity of the ar- 
rangement soon became plain. It is a fact of historical inter- 
est that the building once the brief home of the Society, is still 
standing upon its ancient site on the west side of Main Street 
opposite the Phenix Hotel. In 1840, another change removed 
the library and collections to the building of the Merrimack 
County Bank on North Main Street. In this building Franklin 
Pierce, afterward President of the United States, had his law 
office. In its day this building was an interesting and perhaps 
it might even be called an imposing example of contemporary 
architecture. Naturally it was one of the sights of the town. 
For many reasons this locality seemed exceedingly appropriate 
and desirable. The June meetings were kept up and some 
creditable work was accomplished. But on the whole it must 
be said that affairs were anything but prosperous because of 
a lack of adequate resources. The quarter century com- 
prised in the years 1840-65 was a dark and depressing period 
for the Society and its few but earnest members. It was 
due to their unselfish interest that the organization during 
those years was maintained. Nevertheless, the volumes, 
newspapers and manuscripts belonging to the Society had 
now become a valuable collection numbering nearly seven 
thousand. At the close of the period mentioned the National 
Banking Act compelled the owner of the building, — a state 
bank, to close its accounts and go out of business; conse- 
quently the Society was face to face with a crisis more serious 
than any that had previously threatened its existence. Fortu- 
nately the officers of the bank were also members and well 
wishers of the Society, 

Joseph B. Walker, delivering the dedicatory address in 1873, 
related an interesting incident connected with this crisis in the 
Society's affairs. "At the very point of its extremity, and when 
its horizon was darkest, four of its old friends met, one after- 
noon in the winter of 1868-69, to devise, if possible, some means 



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to remove its embarrassment and secure to it a permanent 
home of its own. Four subscriptions, of two hundred dollars 
each, subsequently increased by a fifth of equal amount, were 
then made towards the sum requisite for the purchase of the 
building, whose upper story it had occupied for nearly thirty 
years, and the whole of which its growing wants would, ere 
long, demand. This beginning of a thousand dollars, the 
hearty efforts of Dr. Bouton and some others, more than 
trebled. With the money then raised (about $4,000) this 
structure was purchased on the 9th of June, 1869, and con- 
veyed in fee simple to the Society." 

THE PROBLEM OF SECURING AN ADEQUATE BUILDING 

Changes and repairs necessary to the new use of the build- 
ing were made very successfully, transforming the interior into 
a library well adapted to the purpose. But structural defects 
still existed and could not easily be remedied. Year by year 
these defects caused constant apprehension of loss by fire. 
The Society's collections, however, greatly increased, so that 
at the beginning of this century the shelves were crowded 
with valuable volumes, and the vault was filled with original 
manuscripts and priceless letters, among which were those 
of Webster, Plumer and General Sullivan. Adequate protec- 
tion against loss became imperative. Want of funds continued 
to be a serious problem, nevertheless at the annual meeting 
on the 9th of June, 1897, the question of buying the Chadwick 
lot adjoining the library on the south was referred to the Stand- 
ing Committee. On this land stood the remains of a dwell- 
ing-house which had been destroyed by fire, and the purchase 
of the property as a measure of security seemed advisable. At 
the April meeting, 1899. the acquisition of this property for 
$1,825, was approved. This action was the beginning of the 
movement for a new building. No one, indeed, denied that 
the time had arrived to consider the question and to find 
means to carry it into effect. Books were increasing rapidly 



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and the valuable Sabine Library of 5,000 volumes was soon to 
come into possession of the Society. 

Among the most devoted members at this time was 
William C. Todd, whose home was in Atkinson. Much of his 
time in later life was passed in Concord, and it so happened 
that he was President of the Society at this very important 
period of its history. None knew better than Mr. Todd that 
the first great need confronting the Society was a new building; 
accordingly at the seventy-seventh annual meeting, the 13th 
of June, 1900, he addressed a communication to the members 
offering to give $5,000 toward the erection of a suitable fire- 
proof addition, provided a like sum should be contributed 
before November 1. A committee was at once appointed to 
solicit the necessary $5,000. From this beginning finally grew 
the building of granite and marble commemorated by this 
volume. 

At the next annual meeting, 12th of June, 1901, the com- 
mittee announced that the sum of $5,000 had been secured from 
willing friends all over the country. A committee consisting 
of William C. Todd, Benjamin A. Kimball, Samuel C. Eastman, 
Joseph B. Walker and Virgil C. Oilman was then elected to 
consider the question of new or enlarged accommodations. 
A year later the result of their investigation was submitted 
in printed form. There were about 17,000 volumes and 60,000 
pamphlets, besides numerous manuscripts. The yearly acces- 
sions were large and increasing. The sum of $10,000 was 
wholly inadequate to build a substantial and adequate addi- 
tion. The committee ultimately recommended that the fund 
of $10,000 be kept for the purpose for which it had been given 
and that nothing be done to the present building. But the 
important paragraph in this report was this: "The commit- 
tee also report that in their opinion an addition to the pres- 
ent building is not desirable. Such an addition would be 
only a make-shift, and it would be far better in the long run 
to secure an entirely new building. . . ." At an adjourned 
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solicit additional funds for the erection of a new building was 
appointed. In 1905 the trustees of the John H. Pearson estate 
added a gift of $5,000 to the building fund. 

At the meeting held the 12th of April of that year, the dis- 
cussion concerning a new building became animated, opinion 
favoring the use of the old premises for the purpose. This 
meeting was a very important one in the history of the 
Society. It was at this gathering that the gift from the 
trustees of the Pearson estate was announced. This gift 
was secured by the solicitation of John C. Thorne, an 
active member of the Society. A committee, consisting 
of the Standing Committee with four other members, was 
instructed to consider the proposition of a new building and 
to secure plans, make recommendations and report at the 
annual meeting. This the committee did, but in the mean- 
while an agreeable and unexpected incident had occurred, 
changing the situation. Although plans had been made pro- 
viding for a new library on the Society's land to cost from 
$35,000 to $40,000, the committee, recognizing at once the 
importance of a communication made by Benjamin A. 
Kimball, paused in its work and did nothing further. Dur- 
ing Mr. Todd's last sickness he expressed to Mr. Kimball 
more than once his views and wishes concerning the Society 
and its permanent location. He had long seen the undesira- 
bility of adding to the old building and he felt strongly that 
the best interests of the Society would be greatly advanced by 
moving to a site nearer the State House. Mr. Todd had, 
moreover, entertained these opinions for a long time and they 
were held tenaciously during the last years of his life. It 
was he who first seriously called the attention of Edward 
Tuck to the needs of the venerable Society and particularly 
to the necessity for a new and modern building. 

Mr. Todd became insistent that no money should be spent 
on the old site, as he thought a building on that location would 
not be attractive to persons desirous to assist in securing a 
proper and appropriate hbrary building. Consequently at 



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the 1905 meeting Samuel C. Eastman offered and advocated 
a resolution favoring a change of location. This was the first 
step taken toward moving to a site near the State House. 
It was also at this time that Mr. Kimball took an active inter- 
est in the project by conferring with the committee and sug- 
gesting that a structure suitable to the present and future 
needs of the Society should cost not less than $100,000, 
that it should be placed in the group of public buildings near 
the State House, and offered to undertake to raise that sum 
of money provided the committee took no further action. 

The committee at once agreed that if $100,000 could be 
raised for a new building, they would be in favor of giving up 
the Main Street location and seeking a new site near the public 
buildings around the State House. Discussion followed and 
inquiries were made as to the probability of Mr. Ejmball's 
success in his unlooked for and generous offer. Members 
were curious to know the source of tliis benefaction but Mr. 
Kjmball stated that publicity at that time would not pro- 
mote the success of the undertaking. 

It was voted at that meeting that the subject of a new build- 
ing should be postponed to a date to be fixed at the next 
annual meeting, and it was also voted, "That it is for the best 
interests of the Society to erect a building that shall be ade- 
quate for the future needs of the Society, and an ornament and 
credit to the State, and as that cannot be done with the funds 
now on hand, that a committee of three be appointed to increase 
the present fund and procure designs for a building of a classical 
character that will meet the requirements of the Society, 
to be used especially to inform donors as to the general charac- 
ter, arrangement and style of building it is proposed to erect, 
(an ideal design not planned for construction) in say four 
forms : 

1. General elevations, with an imposing entrance properly inscribed. 

2. First floor for library and executive department. 

3. High basement for storage, cataloguing, heating, ventilating 
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4. Section through the center of the building showing interior 
arrangements as well as possible. 
The design should be made with special reference to its location. 

THE GIFT OF EDWARD TUCK 

Mr. Todd's communication to Mr. Tuck had deeply inter- 
ested him in the Society and the necessity for a modern library 
building. He asked for a comprehensive report of the condi- 
tion of the Society, together with the tentative opinions of its 
friends concerning a new building. This information was 
promptly sent to him. While in Paris in May, 1905, Mr. 
Kimball explained the project for a new building and its loca- 
tion, and it was at that time that Mr. Tuck gave assurances 
of assistance in carrying on the work provided some site 
near the State House should be selected. Mrs. Tuck now 
became much interested in the conferences and discussions 
concerning the plans and details of the new library and con- 
tinued thereafter an active and helpful factor in the work. 
Mr. Tuck and his wife were acquainted with Concord, and in 
a general way knew the proposed site of the building on the 
land occupied by the Rolfe and the Mead houses. Mr. Tuck 
suggested that these lots be bought at once, which was accord- 
ingly done by Samuel C. Eastman and Mr. Kimball. 

The first plan made by Guy Lowell, a distinguished Boston 
architect, contemplated a library building to be erected on the 
land then purchased, but during the spring of 1907 Mr. and 
Mrs. Tuck spent a few days in Concord and carefully studied 
the situation. They quickly came to the conclusion that in 
order to build a library such as they had in view, it would be 
necessary to acquire more land and Mr. Tuck contributed 
$10,000 toward the purchase of all the house lots on Green 
and Park Streets, which together with the two lots already 
purchased, comprised all the property within the square 
bounded by State, Park, Green and Center Streets with the 
exception of the Bishop's House and the Advent meeting house 
lot. At a later date the Advent property was also purchased 




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by Mr. Tuck and presented to the Society. With the acquisi- 
tion of additional land, new, enlarged and more ornate plans 
were prepared which Mr. Kimball carried to Paris for the 
critical approval of Mr. and Mrs. Tuck. For a fortnight at 
least these plans and sketches were carefully examined and 
were finally approved. Mr. Tuck expressed himself thus 
respecting the new building: 

"I want this building to be pure Greek, embodying the best of 
its kind in architecture and artistic beauty, and in all its appoint- 
ments to be unsurpassed, making the structure ever a joy to visit. 
Mrs. Tuck and myself want the building to be the best of its kind, 
of distinctive character and of the best design." 

As the result of correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Tuck 
and Mr. Kimball, and also personal interviews, the Society 
took definite action at an important adjourned annual meeting 
held Saturday, June 29, 1907. At this meeting the following 
resolutions were unanimously adopted: 

Resolved, that Messrs. Benjamin A. Kimball, Samuel C. Eastman and 
Henry W. Stevens of Concord, Frank N. Parsons of Franklin, and 
Frank W. Hackett of Portsmouth, be appointed a Building Commit- 
tee, with full power to raise such sums of money as may be necessary 
in addition to the funds of the Society now especially pledged and 
available therefor, to purchase the land on the corner of North State 
and Park Streets in Concord, and erect thereon a new library building 
on the plan submitted to the Society at this meeting, subject to such 
modifications as may be found expedient or necessary. 

Said Committee shall have full power to make all contracts required 
for the carrying out of the plan in the name of the Society. 

Said Committee may appoint its own chairman, treasurer and 
agents and shall have charge of the disbursement of all funds raised 
or hereby appropriated for the building or land. 

Said Committee may provide for any memorials that in their judg- 
ment may be deemed proper. 

Voted, that the Building Committee this day appointed is hereby 
authorized to fill any vacancy that may occur in their number, the 
person so appointed to serve until the next meeting of the Society, 
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The several house lots were cleared of dwellings and work 
now began. The foundations outlined indicated the generous 
design of Edward Tuck. 

To narrate the progress, step by step, leading to the decision 
that resulted in an acceptance of the plans and the signing of 
building contracts would be to tell a story altogether unusual, 
possibly unprecedented in the history of similar projects. 
Because of the confidence existing between Mr. Tuck and 
Mr. Kimball, there had been no writings or binding agreements 
on either side. All that had taken place had been of an oral 
nature, yet here was an undertaking involving a large sum of 
money and embracing business contracts and various respon- 
sibilities. Moreover, an ocean separated one from the other. 
The foundation walls had been completed and the formal lay- 
ing of the corner stone was approaching when Mr. Tuck, in 
order to guard against the confusion which might result from 
the uncertainties of life, placed in the hands of Mr. Kimball 
a letter, under date of March 30, 1909, in which he definitely 
assumed responsibility for the cost of the construction of the 
building and its entire equipment. 




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The work of the most accomphshed artists in stone is to be 
lavished upon this exquisite material. You already see some 
foregleams of its splendor in the specimens of wall before you; 
and when the resources of art in marble, and steel, and bronze, 
come to be added to this external grandeur, it cannot be 
doubted that the result will be "a thing of beauty, and a joy 
forever." 

Knowing something of the general scheme, and the com- 
mission given to the builders, I assure you that it may be 
confidently expected that in exterior and interior decoration, 
this noble building is to be the peer of the best in the country, 
and that no scientific or historical association will be housed in 
more sumptuous quarters. 

It will be in keeping with the fine group of buildings wliich 
will adorn this quadrangle — a site which has been pronounced 
the finest in New England next to Copley Square — comprising 
the Capitol, the State Library, the Federal Court House and 
Post-office, the City Hall, and others of scarcely less preten- 
sions — and in historical significance and function tills will not 
be inferior to any one of these stately edifices. 

Such will be the building, and it is to be raised here in a 
State not as yet replete with monuments of history or artistic 
genius — but in which a brave beginning is being made. 
This Society has already done and is now doing much to illus- 
trate and immortalize the achievements of the State, and the 
civic and military renown of her sons. 

The Society may, I think, justly claim to have been the 
center and mainspring of the intellectual movement in our 
State, which in the last half century has manifested itself in 
the growth of the historic spirit, and the cultivation of taste 
in literary, pictorial and monumental art. 

The New Historical Hampshire Society was formed nearly 
a century ago. At the beginning and all along the course 
of its history, our leading intellects in the learned profes- 
sions and every department of knowledge have evinced their 
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The great names of Jeremiah Mason, Levi Woodbury, Jere- 
miah Smith, lehabod Bartlett, WiHiam Plumer, FrankHn 
Pierce, Joel Parker, Nathan Lord, Ira Perley, Samuel D. Bell, 
Charles H. Bell, and all our later statesmen, orators and schol- 
ars have adorned its rolls; and beyond question our present and 
future leaders of thought, opinion and action will hereafter be 
identified with it and its activities. 

The Society essentially antedates in work on its chosen lines 
that of the State Library, our neighbor now so finely housed, 
which assumed no rank in work of this character till 1866. 

The growth of the Society and its progress in carrying out 
its purposes were slow for many years. The interest in it 
was practically local and its maintenance due mainly to the 
hospitality and public spirit of Concord and Concord people. 

But many studious and inquiring men have cherished it, 
and industriously wrought for its benefit for eighty-seven 
years; and in the last forty years a general quickening of inter- 
est in it has resulted in a great accumulation of valuable 
property, till today its collections in every branch of knowledge, 
especially upon historical, antiquarian and genealogical lines 
are of priceless value. 

Its library, comprising more than 15,000 bound volumes, its 
pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, autographs, coins, curios. 
Revolutionary relics and liistoric memorials of many kinds 
are pronounced by those who are experts in such lore to be 
unsurpassed by collections of this class in any other State, 
while its walls are covered with noble portraits, busts, engrav- 
ings, and objects of liistoric interest connected with celebrated 
men and events. 

In the course of time these accumulations long since outgrew 
our accommodations and the need of a suitable building to 
house the precious possessions of the Society has long been 
felt. Some eft'orts and notable gifts have been made to supply 
this want; but until very recently no assurance of an adequate 
fund to meet the wants of the Society for the present and the 
century to come has been found. 



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It is a felicity in which we rejoice at the present hour that 
most opportunely a man has appeared who has the insight to 
discern the needs of this Society, the public spirit to appreciate 
and the munificence to supply them. 

We are here today by the grace and generosity of Mr. 
Edward Tuck, still, let us be thankful, a citizen of New Hamp- 
shire and not as yet expatriated, though a dweller in the French 
capital. 

Mr. Tuck is a son of our State, the scion of a distinguished 
father, highly honored and still well remembered by us, and 
a graduate of our own college. He has been a resident of Paris 
for many years, where his great business capacity has rendered 
him able to make the munificent gift which this building 
implies. 

Mr. Tuck has prospered and "made good" in the world 
and makes this offering in token of his loyalty and affection 
for his native State and the honored ancestor whose name he 
has given to his greatest endowment. 

Such are the public works which he is projecting in our midst, 
the forms of beauty and utility which he is raising, at Dart- 
mouth College, here at the capital and in his native town, for 
enlarging the instrumentalities and broadening the scope of 
our culture and civilization — such are his contributions to the 
learning, and the enlightenment and refinement of the genera- 
tions to come, that we may have a sure forecast that in travers- 
ing our State our successors in citizenship shall find everywhere 
proofs that a man of splendid public spirit, of insight and 
liberality, has lived, and left great memorials for the elevation 
of men. That inscription in the choir of St. Paul's Cathe- 
dral will as justly be applicable to him as it originally was to 
Sir Christopher Wren, Si momwientum requiris, circumspice, 
"if you ask for his monument, look around you." 

If I may venture to conjecture the purpose of Mr. Tuck in 
making to us this princely benefaction, I believe it is not for 
what our Society has done, or is specially now doing, that he 
is thus distinguishing us by his favor; nor is it of any local or 



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temporary purport, or for the adornment or aggrandizement of 
this capital, worthy, interesting and beautiful as it is. 

But if I rightly conceive the views of Mr. Tuck, prefigured 
clearly by his cosmopoHtan spirit, in what he has done at Dart- 
mouth College and elsewhere, his design is co-extensive with 
the State and Nation — particularly the convenient, large unit 
of the State — the State that gave him birth, and to which his 
heart and mind are ever returning in love and service. His 
thought and his gift are of and to the State, and not specially 
to its capital city. 

He conceives of this as a great repository, whose library 
and whose treasures of literature and art will make it the resort 
of scholars and men of letters of the entire State; where inves- 
tigation and research of every kind may be pursued under the 
best possible advantages, and statesman, lawyer, historian, 
scholar and philosopher, can find all that science and art have 
gained for his use, his culture and his instruction. 

He sees the great capabihties of such an association of our 
most cultured and advanced thinkers and workers, and he 
wishes to create here a headquarters of civilization in the 
future — to make this Society of ours the New Hampshire 
center and rallying point of the best thought and work of the 
next ages. 

I believe the New Hampshire Historical Society will rise to 
the full measure and height of this great opportunity. Con- 
scious of its high responsibility and of a new era opening in its 
hfe by these new facihties and means of progress it will be 
inspired to a zealous co-operation with the just expectations of 
Mr. Tuck and will make the institution endowed with this 
noble home a laboratory for intellectual work of the highest 
character. Already much has been done in this direction and 
I am sure that no community is richer than this in accomplished 
results of a serious and permanent nature inwrought with the 
very fabric of society in law, in religion, in legislation, in all 
the arts and sciences which adorn, dignify and elevate human 
hfe. At this merely preliminary stage of the work it is not 



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the time to enter upon any elaborate discussion of the Society 
or of this building. At a later day in more formal and stated 
discourse our history, our achievements, our aims and espe- 
cially our obligations to our benefactors will be more carefully 
given to the world. 

I merely outline this great enterprise today and call the 
citizenship of New Hampshire and of the Republic of Letters 
to witness the breadth of this conception of our mission — to 
cherish and disseminate sound learning, to encourage inde- 
pendent thought, to keep an open door and to be hospitable 
to all free inquiry — and especially do we design to investigate 
in the fullest and most searching manner the origin of this 
noble State of ours, of which we are all proud to be citizens, 
and to make a comprehensive and logical collection of all the 
authentic sources of our history and bring into scientific body 
and statement all that can be known of a State which yields 
superior rank to no commonwealth in the world. 

These are our hopes and aims, and we cherish the belief 
that in the collections of the Society which have been gathered 
in eighty-seven years past, a splendid beginning toward their 
realization has been made. Our library is already an invalu- 
able nucleus of what we expect to be ultimately a vast store- 
house of the facts of our past, of the work accomplished by our 
ancestors in peace and in war. We shall await with such 
patience as we can command the raising of these walls and 
when the cap-stone has been placed, as we place the corner 
stone at this hour, those of us who survive to that not very 
distant day will meet here again to hear a characterization in a 
more elaborate and ambitious style of the great designs of our 
benefactor and the working out of the stupendous plans of 
the Divine Mind which permeates the universe in giving us such 
men and such fruits of their labor and their lives. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 25 



ADDRESS BY HENRY B. QUINBY, GOVERNOR OF 
NEW HAMPSHIRE 

To achieve the security of the archives of our State for gen- 
erations to come will be to render a service which cannot well 
be overestimated and this has been the task chosen by one of 
New Hampshire's generous sons, Mr. Edward Tuck, and to him, 
the thanks of a grateful people will be given for the gift of the 
magnificent edifice to be erected here which will be an endur- 
ing memorial of his public spirit and love of home and country. 

No structure can be too beautiful or too costly to be a fitting 
casket to contain the treasures of New Hampshire's splendid 
history. 

Within this shrine of imperishable granite will be safely de- 
posited the priceless records and other tangible evidences of 
New Hampshire's share in the founding and in the building of 
our Nation. 

Here, too, as the years roll by, will be gathered tokens of the 
great battle for the preservation of our Union, that the memory 
of our patriots may never die — and relics of the war with 
Spain which has banished forever from our continent the last 
vestige of Spanish rule. 

Hither will our citizens journey to contemplate this building 
and its precious contents. Before us and our descendants they 
will bring vividly to mind the stories of Stark at Bennington, 
who began the breaking of the chain which bound us to Great 
Britain; SuUivan who provided ammunition for Bunker Hill, 
and the brave men who followed them to victory and who 
helped to place this great Republic of ours upon a lasting 
foundation. 

Here the men and women of New Hampshire can learn as 
no language can teach them of the accomplishments of their 
ancestors in the arts of peace and of their heroism in war; in 
every struggle in which America has been involved for liberty, 
for justice and for equal rights to man, and may our children 



26 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

and our children's children find inspiration here to emulate the 
virtues and the patriotism of their fathers. 

Fellow citizens, I congratulate you and our State upon the 
great achievements which have placed New Hampshire, 
although comparatively small in area, among the greatest of 
the states of our Union in influence and importance, and well 
may we all rejoice in this day which sees laid the corner stone 
of this haven of safety for those things which we hold so dear 
that generations yet unborn, as they behold them may praise 
God and their ancestors for what they wrought. 

GREETING FROM MR. TUCK 

Benjamin A. Kimball, chairman of the Building Committee, 
read this interesting communication: 

P.^Ris, June 9, 1909. 
Hon. Benjamin A. Kimball, Chairman Building Committee Neic Hamp- 
shire Historical Society, Concord, N. H. 
It is my hope that the Historical Society Building, of which the corner 
stone is being laid so auspiciously today, may be perfectly adapted to 
its purpose, and by its architectural beauty, afford perpetual satisfaction 
and joy to the Society itself and be a source of pleasure and pride to the 
people of the Capital City and of the State of New Hampshire. 

Edwabd Tuck. 

THE LAYING OF THE STONE 

As the corner stone was dropped easily and gently on its bed, Mr. Kimball continued: 

And now in behalf of Edward Tuck I declare this corner 
stone well and duly laid. 

May this building of granite, marble, steel and bronze exist 
forever. 

Master Builder: Having thus laid the corner stone of this 
building, I now return to you these implements of your craft 
having full confidence in your skill and capacity to perform the 
important duties confided to you to the satisfaction of those 
who have intrusted you with their fulfillment. 




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CONCLUDING CEREMONIES 

In the laying of the corner stone, a trowel of solid silver, with 
handle of ebony, made at the works of the William B. Durgin 
Silverware Company, was used by Mr. Kimball, chairman of 
the Building Committee, the blade of which was inscribed 
with his closing words. 

The implements were received from Mr. Kimball by Edward 
F. Minor of Worcester, Mass., president of the Central Con- 
struction Company, the general contractors for the building, 
who was accompanied by William Shumway, the vice-president 
of the company, also of Worcester. The school children then 
sang a hymn written by Rev. Daniel C. Roberts, D.D,, a 
former president of the Society, which closed the ceremony. 

God of our fathers, Whose almighty hand 
Leads forth in beauty all the starry band 
Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies. 
Our grateful songs before Thy throne arise. 

Thy love divine hath led us in the past, 
In this free land by Thee our lot is cast; 
Be Thou our ruler, guardian, guide and stay. 
Thy word our law. Thy paths our chosen way. 

From war's alarms, from deadly pestilence. 
Be Thy strong arm our ever sure defense; 
Thy true religion in our hearts increase. 
Thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace. 

Refresh Thy people on their toilsome way. 
Lead us from night to never-ending day; 
Fill all our lives with love and grace divine, 
And glory, laud and praise be ever Thine. 




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THE NEW BUILDING 

TWO years and a half separated the laying of the corner 
stone and the day of dedication. The superintendent 
acting for the building committee was Timothy P. 
Sullivan of Concord, who had large experience in construction 
work, particularly of granite. Under Mr. Sullivan's constant 
supervision the plans and specifications were faithfully carried 
out. The details embodied in this beautiful structure were 
not only new in Concord, but they had seldom been seen in 
American architecture. Month after month this interesting 
construction went on, gradually and gracefully unfolding the 
exquisite conceptions of the architect, Guy Lowell. In the 
words of Mr. Lowell: 

"The New Hampshire Historical Society Building has been 
given an unusually appropriate architectural design. The 
building, primarily a library in character, an athenaeum in 
fact, also expresses the dignity of a home for art, and a meet- 
ing place for lectures and for research. 

"First of all there is a quality of permanence, without and 
within the structure, in the restrained beauty and dignity of 
the design, the materials, and the decorative treatment. 
The building is Greek in spirit and in detail. It is not archaic, 
however, neither does it express any passing style nor modern 
fancy. It is entirely appropriate for its uses, and an inspira- 
tion to those who know the building and to those who avail 
themselves of the opportunities it affords. 

"The elements, fire, and even time itself cannot harm the 
work. The exterior is of granite, cut from Rattlesnake Hill 
in the Capital City. Daniel Chester French, in the monu- 
mental sculpture over the grand entrance, carved from the 
same granite, tells the story of ancient and modern research 

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which the Society and the structure typify. The sculpture, 
conceived and executed in the same spirit, fulfills and crowns 
the beauty and dignity of the whole. 

"Massive bronze grilles frame this entrance. The central 
rotunda is built of Old Convent Grey Sienna marble, a mate- 
rial of great beauty, quarried by monks from the only quarry 
in the world of this material. The arches and vaults, 
even the ceiling, are of this marble. The whole rotunda 
design is impressive in its simplicity. 

"The great staircase leading to the stack room and to the 
exhibition hall is of Hauteville marble, adorned with railings 
and lamp standards of bronze. The rotunda on this story 
is constructed throughout in Caen stone. 

"The entire west wing of the building is devoted to the 
library of the Society, and is complete in every requirement. 
The main reading room is large, light, and of very pleasing 
proportions and detail. The books are in bronze cases ar- 
ranged according to the alcove system. Over the fireplace in 
this room, is the contributors tablet of white marble, where, 
in bronze letters, are inscribed the names of those who have 
given distinguished study to historical research, and also the 
names of men and women who have contributed toward the 
purchase of the land and the maintenance of the building. 

"In the basement are the newspaper room and the cata- 
loguing department, and adjoining the reading room are rooms 
for the librarian and for the trustees. 

"At the right in the rotunda is the lecture room, with marble 
door panels and platform with mahogany chairs while over- 
head is the large, top lighted, brick paved exhibition room. On 
this floor are several apartments designed for special exhibi- 
tions and loan collections. 

"The electric fixtures, all especially designed, in keeping with 
the character of the building, are of bronze. The furnishings 
are of mahogany designed in harmony with all else, and making 
complete a building admirable in every detail." 

On the marble wall facing the grand stairway has been 







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placed a beautiful tablet, the gift of Benjamin A. Kimball, 
dedicated to Edward Tuck in commemoration of his gener- 
osity to the Society. This tablet exhibits workmanship of 
the finest taste and skill; its composition is of bronze enriched 
with dark and antique color. The design represents an aged 
student recording history, having on his right the lamp of 
knowledge and a palm branch and on his left an hour glass 
and an olive branch. 

In the lower rotunda to the right and to the left of the 
entrance are two semi-circular niches each containing a 
bronze bust; while directly overhead facing the staircase 
are two similar niches each with its distinguished tenant. 

Nowhere, perhaps, could a quartette of this character 
touch the visitor more deeply and rouse in him an apprecia- 
tion of family achievements mingled with sentiments of patri- 
otic gratitude. And all this amid surroundings unusually 
rare and beautiful. 

On the right as one enters the splendid rotunda is a bronze 
bust of Amos Tuck, while opposite on the left is a similar bust 
of his son, Edward, the donor of the building. Amos Tuck, 
although a native of Maine, was a life-long citizen of New 
Hampshire and a man of much distinction. He was one of 
the original Free Soil Democrats, leaving the party because of 
its policy respecting slavery and becoming a founder of the 
Republican party whose name he suggested as early as 1853. 
Six years in Congress and several terms in the State Legislature 
comprised his legislative career, but his political influence 
continued to the end of his life. 

The bust of Edward Tuck, the benefactor of this Society, 
occupies a place at the left of the entrance. Unlike his father, 
Mr. Tuck has never taken an active part in politics, but few 
men know our politics better or possess a keener insight into 
their trend and effect. Born in Exeter, August 25th, 1842, 
studying at Phillips Academy and entering Dartmouth as a 
sophomore in 1859, he was graduated three years later. Al- 
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32 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 

practical knowledge of French soon prompted him to take 
an examination with a view to the consular service and having 
passed it successfully, he was sent to the consulate at Paris where 
within a few months he succeeded to the vice-consu'ship. 
But official preferment soon gave way to business, conse- 
quently he left the service to enter the well-known banking 
house of John Munroe and Co., at Paris. Few years passed 
before Mr. Tuck became a member of the firm, remaining 
until the early eighties when he finally retired from active 
business pursuits. 

The character of Mr. Tuck is seen in his great public bene- 
factions — and no man knows of his many private gifts. To 
Dartmouth College he has given large sums all directed to 
practical ends. 

In 1872 Mr. Tuck married Miss Stell who has been an active 
adviser and worker in the wise and liberal philanthropy of 
her husband. 

Two marble busts in the niches of the upper rotunda are 
the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Tuck. One is the bust of Wilham 
Shorter Stell, father of Mrs. Tuck, the other a bust of Benjamin 
Franklin. Mr. Stell was born in Philadelphia in 1800 and 
while a young man he went to Manchester, England, where he 
became a well-known and successful merchant. He retired 
from commercial life in 1850 and died in London in 1863. 
An ardent and outspoken Union man during our Civil War, 
and almost in daily conflict with old English friends he abated 
no opinion nor left unspoken his hostility to the Confederacy. 
Mr. Stell was an intimate friend of John Bright, Richard 
Cobden, George Peabody, Charles Francis Adams, Junius S. 
Morgan, and to many distinguished countrymen traveling in 
England he showed generous hospitality. 

The fine bust of Benjamin Franklin is supposed to be the 
work of Caffieri, and was made from the living model. 

Between these busts is a copy in plaster of Houdon's bust 
of Lafayette, the original of which stands over the entrance 
to the Assembly Hall at Versailles. 



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This is a gift to the Society by Benjamin A. Kimball. 

The building, simple in its magnificence, is richly adorned 
by a group of splendid statuary occupying a prominent place 
over the ornate and impressive entrance. The sculptor is 
Daniel C. French, a native of Exeter. 

The group consists of two figures, male and female, kneeling, 
on either side of a shield bearing the seal of the Historical 
Society and surmounted by an ornamental finial of which the 
chief feature is an owl, as the symbol of Wisdom. The aged 
female figure on the right represents Ancient History. She 
holds in her right hand a skull symbolizing the dead past and 
is studying a tablet upon which her left hand rests, — the 
tablet representing the records of the past. 

The figure of a youth on the left represents Modern History 
as the genius of Discovery. His right hand rests on a globe 
while he studies a scroll which rests on his knee. 

The Seal which appears on the shield between the two 
figures has in its center an open book with a torch, represent- 
ing Learning and the transmission of it; above is the radiation 
of Light, and below is a skull of an Indian with the feathered 
head-dress of the New Hampshire Indians. Branches of the 
apple and the pine surround the skull as symbols of cultiva- 
tion and wildness, and an Indian arrow-head appears below. 

The building is 150 feet in length and 90 feet in width includ- 
ing the massive pavilions. Constructed of ten cut Concord 
granite, Greek in design and spirit, with details of the Doric 
order, situated on a site bounded by State, Park and Green 
Streets with the State House, Federal Building, State Library 
and the City Hall close at hand, the New Hampshire Historical 
Society, through the generosity of its benefactor, possesses a 
perfect and complete structure, at once attractively beautiful 
both within and without. Entering the massive bronze doors, 
the beauty and excellence of design are at once seen. The 
circular walls of Convent Grey Sienna marble, with arches and 
vaults of the same material, with spacious halls leading to 
the reading room and to the lecture room, give an effect of 
singular dignity in art and design. 



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THE DEDICATION 

THURSDAY, the 23d of November, 1911, was the day 
appointed for the formal dedication. The weather 
was mild and propitious and the exercises and ban- 
quet were carried through with gratifying success. At eleven 
o'clock the members and the invited guests assembled at the 
State House, where they were received and welcomed in the 
Council Chamber by Governor Bass and Mr. and Mrs. Tuck, 
The Governor's staff, in full uniform, with their ladies, also 
assisted at the reception. An hour later, one of the most 
distinguished companies ever seen in New Hampshire, num- 
bering between five and six hundred, under the marshal- 
ship of Frank W. Hackett of New Castle, moved from the 
State House across State Street to the beautiful home of the 
Society, now opened for the first time. 

ADDRESS OF EDWARD TUCK 

Called to order by ^Ir. Hackett the exercises of dedication were at once begun. 
Daniel Hall. President of the Society, introduced Benjamin A. Kimball. Chairman 
of the Building Committee, who from the 6rst had been the adviser of Mr. Tuck 
as well as a friend of many years. Mr. Kimball formally announced to Mr. Tuck 
the completion of the building, in these words: 

"The committee to whom has been entrusted the construction of this building, 
has conformed to your wishes in its erection and now takes pleasure in delivering to 
you the key." 

Mr. Tuck accepted the report of the Chairman of the Building Committee in the 

following address: 

It is my part in the ceremonies of today formally to present 
this building to the New Hampshire Historical Society, 
preparatory to its official dedication. It is fitting that I 
should make the presentation through you, for having from 
the inception of our plans the benefit of your superior judgment 

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36 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 

in all matters pertaining to construction, of your artistic 
taste, your vigilant watchfulness throughout the work, and 
your public spirit in devoting to it your valuable time, I 
decided to provide for the erection of something more monu- 
mental and ornate than a simple library building. It is due 
to you, also, that for its plan and construction we secured 
the services of the distinguished architect, Mr. Guy Lowell, 
who is with us today and whose finished work we now admire. 

The satisfaction I have in giving to the Society a permanent 
home in which its historical treasure may find all the security 
that human effort can ensure, is twofold. I am pleased to 
be able to present to the Society a building, the urgent need 
of which has existed for so many years, one that it will pos- 
sess in its own right and that will be worthy of what is believed 
to be one of the most valuable historical libraries in the 
United States. It is an even greater pleasure to have this 
opportunity to testify to my loyalty to my native State by 
causing to be built in its capital city and of its own imperish- 
able granite, a structure which I have intended should be, 
in its perfection of artistic design and of material execution, 
a source of gratification and pride for all time to the people 
of New Hampshire. In the monumental sculpture over the 
portal of the building we have the grandest specimen of the 
artistic work of a son of our own State, one of America's most 
celebrated sculptors — Daniel Chester French. 

There are in the State of New Hampshire two institutions 
of which we, the sons of the State, have just reason to be 
especially proud: Dartmouth College and the Historical 
Society. First and chief is Dartmouth College, which, 
thanks to the liberal annual appropriation now made by the 
people of the State as represented by their Legislature, and 
to private gifts, has entered upon a new period of accomplish- 
ment and fame under the able administrations of President 
Tucker and of President Nichols. I trust that old Dart- 
mouth may ever endure as a perfect example of a typical 
New England college, and that it may acquire an increasing 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 37 

celebrity, not so much for the number of its graduates as for 
the high quality and efficiency of the education it bestows, 
and for the genuinely democratic spirit with which its students 
are imbued. 

It is my expectation, Mr. Chairman, that the Historical 
Society, in its home which we are dedicating today, will take on 
new life and usefulness, that an awakened interest in it through- 
out the State will be made manifest by an increasing member- 
ship, and that its precious possessions will be largely added to 
now that their security and preservation are permanently 
assured. I hope that the building itself will have in the 
future a high educational value to those students and lovers 
of art, from our own State and elsewhere, who may be unable 
to see and to study the best examples of ancient and modern 
architectural beauty in foreign countries. I hope, too, that 
the unique and invaluable library of the Society, in the spa- 
cious accommodation and orderly arrangement which this 
building affords, will become available for reference not only 
to historical students from New Hampshire, but to those who 
may come to consult it from all parts of the United States, 
and that the glory and renown of the Society throughout 
the country will be as enduring in the generations yet to come 
as will be these granite and marble walls. With full con- 
fidence, Mr. Chairman, that these anticipations will be abund- 
antly realized, I now present to the Society the building and 
hand to you its key. 

TRANSFER OF THE BUILDING TO THE SOCIETY 

Mr. Kimball then presented the building to the Society, 
and unveiled an elaborate bronze tablet on the wall of the ro- 
tunda with the inscription in relievo.^ 

In receiving the key Mr. Kimball said: 

In the presentation of the key of this building by the hand 
of the donor, we find in the act as well as in the words which 

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38 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 

accompany it, a recognition of the excellence of the work done 
by the architect, the sculptor, the superintendent, artisans 
and contractors who have faithfully co-operated with us in 
its ei-ection. 

In receiving the key of this building we express the hope 
that the memory of Edward Tuck may be as enduring as this 
magnificent edifice he has now presented to us. 

In order to perpetuate our appreciation of his gift, I have 
caused to be placed upon this wall a tablet of bronze as a 
testimonial of our gratitude to the donor, and commemora- 
tive of the greatest event in the history of our Society. 

Mr. President, it now gives me pleasure to present to you 
the key of New Hampshire's Temple of History. 

ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT DANIEL HALL 

In the name and behalf of this Society, as its President, 
I receive this key, in token of the possession and ownership 
of this beautiful building, to be hereafter devoted to the uses 
of the Society, and to the promotion of historical culture in 
our State. 

This corner stone was laid on the 9th of June, 1909, and 
without haste, but without pause, the work of architect, 
contractor and artisan has been pressed forward with such 
vigor that the building stands before us today substantially 
perfect in exterior and interior decoration, and complete in 
every detail, giving us, what we have never had before, 
abundant accommodations for cabinets, stacks and historic 
memorials, which we are anxious to arrange, protect and 
preserve. 

The time available at this moment forbids any lengthy 
recital of the history of the Society, and its dwelling places 
hitherto. It is sufficient to say that, though organized nearly a 
century ago, the Society has never, till now, had a dwelling place 
adequate to its needs. Moving from one temporary abode to 
another, during that period, it has, however, been under the 




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NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY S9 



constant guidance and patronage of the intellectual leaders 
of our State, has been cherished with a becoming State pride, 
and has maintained a foremost rank among the learned soci- 
eties and agencies of the time. Through all vicissitudes its 
library has steadily increased, till now we have nearly 20,000 
bound volumes, and our pamphlets, manuscripts, files of news- 
papers, and cabinets of antiquities, autographs, photographs, 
coins, portraits, colonial, revolutionary and other relics, are 
very numerous and of priceless value. There are in our 
archives many precious letters and mementoes of Webster, 
Lincoln and other historical characters. To these will soon 
be added, now that we have a place for their shelter and 
orderly arrangement, many objects of historic and artistic in- 
terest which will make a collection of inestimable value, 
and afford unrivaled facilities for research, and the historical 
inquiries for which the Society exists. This development of 
its function and enlargement of its facilities should and will, 
we are confident, make this building the resort of scholars, 
legislators, antiquarians, historians, — a place for investiga- 
tion "in the still air of delightful studies," and for the exten- 
sion, and particularly the diffusion of knowledge and sound 
culture, especially in that field to which it is dedicated by its 
constitution, — "to discover, secure, and preserve whatever 
may relate to the natural, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical 
history of the United States in general, and of this State in 
particular." 

Mr. Tuck has well spoken of the great need we have felt 
for many years of a building like this for the housing of what 
he has justly termed "one of the most valuable historical 
libraries in the United States." It was this need to which 
his generous spirit has responded. 

When speaking of this work and its inception, I ought not 
and will not forget to mention the obligations of the Society 
and the State to one of my predecessors in this office, the Hon. 
William C. Todd, of Atkinson, who, I believe Mr. Tuck will 
bear me out in saying, was the first person to bring this great 



40 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF THE 

benefaction to his attention. Mr. Todd was a most enlight- 
ened and liberal-minded man, and a life-long and zealous 
friend of this Society. He endowed it with valuable gifts 
of money and wise counsel, but his crowning service to us 
was this suggestion to Mr. Tuck which first kindled his interest 
in the Society. Mr. Todd died in 1903, but his word had not 
fallen upon stony ground. It fructified, and the result is 
seen before us in this beautiful structure, ornate and classical 
in design, but serviceable in the highest degree, and admirably 
adapted to all our wants. 

Mr. Todd's name has been fittingly engraved on the endur- 
ing bronze of yonder tablet, and his memory will not perish. 

This tribute to Mr. Todd detracts nothing from the credit 
due to our benefactor; for it was your mind, Mr. Tuck, which 
conceived this noble structure; your generosity, guidance and 
counsel which have presided over its erection and completion. 
The New Hampshire Historical Society and the citizens of 
the State owe you a debt of gratitude which mere words 
have no power to express or repay. 

But, in addition to our own appreciation of this benefaction, 
you may, and surely will, take to yourself the high satisfaction, in 
your own modest phrase, of "giving to the Society a permanent 
home in which its historical treasures may find all the security 
that human effort can ensure," and of testifying in magnificent 
fashion to your loyalty to your native State, by "causing to be 
built in its capital city, and of its own imperishable granite, a 
structure which you have intended should be in its perfection 
of artistic design, and of material execution, a source of gratifi- 
cation and pride for all time to the people of New Hampshire." 

You may be assured, sir, that you have fully accomplished 
your purpose, and have done more, doubtless, than you had 
intended; for, by these strong walls, exquisite carvings and 
shapely columns, rising so harmoniously into the ordered 
grace and dignity which make this edifice "a thing of beauty 
and a joy forever" you have safely committed your own 
"name and memory to the next ages." 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 41 



Although you have not passed your life entirely in our visi- 
ble presence, but have seen and dwelt, much in other lands, 
as a citizen of the world, we are thankful that unlike some 
others, you have not become expatriated, but that you left 
your heart in New Hampshire, when you went abroad; and 
we who have kept our feet here on the granite rocks, vie 
with ^'ou today in devotion to the old State of your nativity — 
one of the "Old Thirteen" — whose annals are crowded with 
memorable heroic and romantic incidents — one of the oldest of 
American commonwealths, whose three centuries of history 
have been filled with honor and heroism from the beginning — 
through the early colonial days — through the fiery trials of 
the Revolution, and the formation of the Constitution, "the 
greatest work ever struck off at white heat, by the mind and 
purpose of man" — and through the unhappy civil strife which 
finally settled our frame of government and consolidated the 
Union. While she has not kept her place and rank among the 
States in point of population, wealth and political importance, 
in all the great elements of civilization, she is not behind any 
of them today; but in education, in legislation, in liberal, 
poHtical, social and religious thought and institutions, she 
is in the van of advance, and not inferior to the best states 
in the world. 

Such is the monumental story of New Hampshire which 
we wish to gather together, to preserve and give to the world, 
and to continue and honor by our emulation. 

We join with you, sir, in the "expectation" which you have 
so felicitously expressed, that "the Historical Society, in the 
home which we are dedicating today, will take on new life and 
usefulness, that an awakened interest in it throughout the 
State will be made manifest by an increasing membership, 
and that its precious possessions will be largely added to, 
now that their security and preservation are permanently 
assured; and that the glory and renown of the Society will be 
as enduring in the generations yet to come as will be these 
granite and marble walls." 



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EXERCISES IN THE LECTURE ROOM 

The members of the Society and invited guests then pro- 
ceeded to the lecture room at the east end of the library, which 
was soon filled to overflowing, a still larger number being 
unable to gain admission. 

Upon the platform were the President of the Society, Mr. 
Edward Tuck, ex-President William J. Tucker of Dartmouth 
College, and Hon. Samuel W. McCall, a representative in 
Congress from Massachusetts. The President said: 

We will now proceed with the dedicatory services of this 
occasion. I hold in my hand a gavel which has just been re- 
ceived from the distant State of Oregon. It was sent to us by 
the Oregon Historical Society, organized in 1898, with the 
request, with which we gladly comply, that it be used in calling 
our Society to order today. This gavel is most elaborately 
designed and made of ten varieties of native woods selected 
for their historical interest, and is a piece of exquisite work- 
manship. It is accompanied by a careful and detailed account 
of each piece of wood used in making it, and its history and 
historical significance, and also by a cordial and touching 
letter, with allusions to natives of New Hampshire who had 
a part in the early settlement of Oregon. 

This is a beautiful present, and a most thoughtful and op- 
portune reminder of the solidarity of New Hampshire people — 
that "once a New Hampshire man, always a New Hampshire 
man" — and of the community of interest between us and our 
sister society far off on our Pacific coast. 

In itself this gavel is worthy of a careful study on many 
accounts, and also as a token of the participation by one of 
the latest of American commonwealths in the highest culture 
of the land. 

We accept the gift with thanks, and will treasure it among 
our chiefest historical possessions. We may be permitted to 
hope that our friends in Oregon will not apply to it their 
favorite principle of the "Recall," but will allow us to keep 



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and cherish it among our precious souvenirs of this important 
occasion. 

I esteem it a signal honor that it devolves upon me to inaug- 
urate the first exercises of this Society in our own house — with 
which we have become endowed within the last hour by the 
munificence of a son of New Hampshire, of whom we are 
proud, and to whom our gratitude for this beautiful and 
substantial gift will always be felt and acknowledged. 

Mr. Tuck's princely liberality has been manifested by even 
greater gifts bestowed upon other institutions, localities and 
enterprises in his native State; but his bounty is equaled by 
his modesty, and he wishes to be excused from speaking at 
this time. He is, however, present with us, and I am glad 
to have you see him, as he is glad to see you. 

ADDRESS OF DR. ^MLLL\M J. TUCKER 

The President introduced Dr. Tucker as follows: "One honored name and 
personality are so inseparably identi6ed with our highest public activities and all that 
is best in New Hampshire — our efforts for progress, and for betterment in every 
direction in art, in education, in all works of civic pride, that an occasion of this 
sort would seem to lack something of its due setting and illustration, if it were not 
graced by the presence and participation of the first citizen of New Hampshire. We 
all rejoice that overcoming by his will the ill health under which he has been suffering 
in these later days, he is able to give us the satisfaction of his presence at this time; 
and as a special personal friend of Mr. Tuck it gives me the greatest pleasure to 
present to you the Rev. Dr. William J. Tucker, ex-President of Dartmouth 
College." Owing to the condition of Doctor Tucker's health he was not able to 
deliver this address in person. It was read by General F. S. Streeter. 

In speaking at the dedication of the State Library building 
I took occasion, as I recall, to dwell at some length upon the 
erection of that building as an illustration of "the revival of 
civic pride in the commonwealth." The State, though then 
acting in its corporate capacity and through its authorized 
representatives, really acted in response to public sentiment. 
It was no longer fit, in the judgment of our more thoughtful 
and responsible citizens, that the State should remain without 
some visible and worthy ex-pression of its concern for those 
more advanced civic interests which naturally center in a 
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In the erection of this building we have an equally gratifying 
illustration of the more individual and personal ways in which 
we are allowed to serve the commonwealth. I say, in which 
we are allowed to act thus, for this more personal way of 
service is a part of the original New England idea and method 
of serving the state. The original New England conception 
of citizenship left very much room for the free play of public 
spirit. It created a race of public-spirited in distinction from 
private-spirited citizens. It entrusted to men so trained the 
support of the higher part of education, the advancement of 
industry and the arts, and the diffusion of religion not only 
in its inherited forms but also in new applications to the social 
order. It set up everywhere within our borders signs and 
testimonials pointing to the working of the principle. Such 
were the colleges, most of the libraries and museums, the 
churches, and not a few of the homes of business and of 
industry. 

True, this original idea of citizenship was not carried over 
completely into the newer states which New England men 
built in the West. The newer states, developed under New 
England influence, assumed more functions and took larger 
control of public interests, than the original states had then, 
or have since, seen fit to assume or undertake. But there is 
plainly discernible, I think, throughout the Northwest a grow- 
ing desire and purpose to recover and reestablish this somewhat 
neglected principle. Even the state universities are begin- 
ning to make their appeal for individual benefactions, not 
only for the money needed, but for the spirit which is more 
needed. The principle is certainly vital and germinant even 
when overshadowed by other civic principles. We are all 
coming to learn, some for the first time and some over again, 
that the state, that institutions of every sort, must have that 
kind of loyalty which is allowed to work in personal ways and 
with personal distinction. Nothing, therefore, could be more 
timely than that now and here, within this group of civic 
buildings representing the municipality, the state, and the 




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federal government, there should arise this building represent- 
ing the more personal aspect of citizenship. 

We honor today, as always when we recall the record of the 
New Hampshire Historical Society, the names of its founders 
and faithful supporters — names of very great significance to 
our State in other connections; but the distinction of the hour 
must fall, whether he will or not, upon our friend and guest 
who has given us in this building such an exemplification of 
the principle to which I have referred. I do not know how to 
discriminate, so far as the actual motive to this generous act 
is concerned, between the obligation to do such a thing which 
came upon him by inheritance, and the love of doing such 
things which has been developed by practice. No like instance 
occurs to me in which father and son have been so much at 
one in the purpose of their lives, and at the same time so 
successful in expressing this purpose in such different ways, as 
appears in the public careers of Amos and Edward Tuck. 
Amos Tuck gave to this State and to the country the rare 
personal gift of loyalty to conviction — a gift which contributed 
powerfully to the redemption of the State of New Hampshire 
from the political domination of the slave power, and ulti- 
mately to the redemption of the nation from the grasp of the 
same power. It was the most timely gift which any man at 
that time had in his power to bestow. When Amos Tuck 
as a young man broke from his party in his support of John 
P. Hale, and called a convention of independent men, he led 
the way, in this locality, into that great national movement 
which was to change the future of the country. The same 
principle of estimating himself according to his relation to the 
public good, which actuated the father, has manifested itself 
in the son through the unselfish and far-reaching use of personal 
possessions. The motive of personal action has been equally 
sincere. Absence from the country has not dulled the fine 
sense of loyalty nor have the allurements of social life weakened 
the strong sense of duty. The gifts of Edward Tuck have 
always been, so far as I know, of his own motion, never 



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solicited, the result of an intelligent and well-considered pur- 
pose, doubled at least in value by their timeliness, and evi- 
dently prompted by the impulse to bear his part in fulfilling 
the highest obligations and privileges of citizenship. In this 
last gift, as in those which have gone before, we have, therefore, 
not simply the occasion for appreciation and gratitude; we 
have here a striking witness to the value of those rights and 
privileges which go with the more personal forms of public 
service, and no less an object lesson and example to all of 
us who wish that these especial rights and privileges may be 
perpetuated. 




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THE DEDICATION ADDRESS 

By Samuel W. McCall 

The President introduced Mr. McCall in the following words: 

I now have the honor to present to you as the orator of the day a loyal son of our 
own Dartmouth College, a distinguished scholar, publicist and statesman, the Hon. 
Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts. 

THE New Hampshire Historical Society is to be congrat- 
ulated upon this beautiful building, which, through the 
munificence of Mr. Tuck, is to be its home. All who are 
interested in the cause of learning will have a thought of grati- 
tude towards the generous giver. The dedication of so noble a 
piece of architecture designed for so worthy a purpose forms 
a notable event in the history of the State. In its solidity and 
beauty it well typifies that history, the preservation and 
study of which it is intended to promote. It is fortunate in 
its location by the side of the State Capitol. There is much 
to be said in favor of the utility of having a well-regulated 
historical society planted by the side of every state house in 
the Union, while one at each corner of the Capitol at Washing- 
ton would probably be none too many. They would at 
least serve to remind those charged with the responsibilities 
of government that there is an historical, if not a theological, 
hereafter. They might lead our governors and legislators 
to project themselves a little into the future and regulate 
their conduct according to the great tests of time rather than 
by the popular passions of the hour. Our statesmen might 
look upon themselves with something of the vision of history's 
passionless eye. It is not too much to hope that this structure 
may thus serve the double purpose of contributing to exact 
learning and to the good government of New Hampshire. 

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While the members of this Society may aim to have all 
learning for their province, I take it that the particular field 
which it has set aside for itself, is that relating to the history 
of New Hampshire, to her government, her people, her 
institutions and, so far as it is dependent upon them, to the 
history of the Nation and the outside world. This is a rich 
field and one which it is important carefully to cultivate. If 
your work shall be supplemented by that of similar institu- 
tions in the other states of the Union, there is likely to be 
little of importance in the present or the future of the Nation 
that will escape the attention of the historian, and many of 
the secrets of the past will be rescued which otherwise would 
be destined to perish. 

Professor Shotwell has well defined history as all the phe- 
nomena of human life and also of the natural world. The 
history of men acting individually and in their multitudinous 
relations to each other and of the operations of Nature herself 
leaves little to be covered in the entire domain of learning 
and affords a field broad enough to satisfy the most boundless 
ambition. In a rapidly moving age, filled with changes in 
methods of living, in architecture, in means of communication 
and in social and political institutions, the materials of history 
are found upon every hand. I imagine it is your primary 
purpose judiciously to select and to systematize and preserve 
this material, and especially such as would otherwise be in 
danger of perishing. As to whatever relates to laws you have 
at your service the admirable collection in the neighboring 
library of the State. And it may generally be observed as to 
the records of laws that they are in our time indelibly graven, 
if not upon stone, yet in a hundred secure places, although 
this certainty of permanence is in no way a proof of the fitness 
of some of them to survive except for a purely historical 
purpose. 

The first process in the writing of history is the collection 
of the raw material and the ascertainment of fact. The 
next process lies in the domain of art and is concerned with 



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the artistic presentation of the results of investigation. The 
art, however, is to an extent restricted and trammeled by the 
necessity for the unvarnished narration of events. The 
exact portrayal of the lives of men and of the origin and devel- 
opment of institutions leaves little room for the employment 
of the fancy, however much that faculty may be stimulated 
by the process. In proportion as the historian colors his 
facts he ceases to be an historian. He must banish the illu- 
sions which the imagination delights to chase. It is enter- 
taining to read an historical romance in which some brilliant 
master draws upon his imagination for his material, and, 
in the absence of known facts or in disregard of them, traces 
definite figures upon the unstable clouds. But such a work 
must not be confused with history. The historical imagina- 
tion, whatever it may be, must be exercised with great caution 
or the main end of historical writing which is exact narration 
will be defeated. And yet, if history is simply the record of 
unclothed facts and verified statistics, it will be as dry as a 
report of the Patent OflBce, and, wholly lacking in popular 
interest, its study will be given over to the specialist. There 
is ample room to reconcile the requirements of truth with the 
exercise of art. The hand of the artist may correctly pre- 
serve the lineaments of men and yet make them breathe 
again. He may truthfully reproduce stirring events and 
yet with such vividness that one may see them as if they 
were enacted again under his eye. He may invest the true 
record with all the dramatic interest of the deed. There is 
room for vivid narration, rapidity of movement, splendid 
diction, always assuming that the writer who possesses these 
qualities will not yield to the temptation simply to display 
them. He must not play favorites. He must not furbish 
up the deeds of one man and darken those of another. He 
must adhere remorselessly to the truth and while he may 
indulge in philosophy, if he has the faculty to do so, he must 
strictly subordinate it to the narration. Otherwise he may 
show himself a brilliant advocate or novelist, or poet, or any- 
thing, in short, but an historian. 



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History is becoming less and less the chronicle of an indi- 
vidual, who is made to serve as the lay figure of an age, and 
more and more the record of the people. It is becoming 
infused with the democratic spirit. Many a Jack-the-Giant- 
Killer story has been written as solemn history and we have 
been regaled with the multitude of prodigies performed by 
one man, who has had gathered together under his name all 
the achievements of his time. With the spread of democracy 
and the diffusion of education, history is acquiring a far broader 
base. Each man is coming into his own. More and more the 
name of the doer, however humble, is linked to the deed. 
That wretched and bedraggled thing that has gone under the 
name of history, the record of wars, waged to gratify one man's 
ambition, of court intrigues and scandal, of lying diplomacy, 
must keep its place in the past. It is out of tune with our 
time. There are today such abundant records of the lives 
of men as to form the rich material for a social science. What 
each man does may be known almost beyond his own power 
of concealment, and the momentous events of state are apt 
to be the outcome of the conflict between mighty popular 
forces and have their roots deep among the masses of the 
people. The future historian of our time may exactly repro- 
duce the life of our people from the material which this Society 
and others like it will collect and preserve. 

What shall be current at any given time you will be likely 
to secure, but you have an important field of exploration in 
the past and your intelligent membership will doubtless be 
able to rescue and to preserve in this central storehouse very 
much of moment in the history of towns, parishes, families 
and individuals which might otherwise be lost. Thus your 
library, already rich in material, will be the necessary resort of 
scholars who are exploring your own peculiar field. Your 
publications, I venture to say, will be rather notable for their 
quality than their number, and you will not imitate the prodi- 
gality of some of your sister societies, whose fruitfulness in 
bringing forth volumes is only equaled by the frequent worth- 



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lessness of the progeny. It is doubtless a matter purely of 
individual taste, but, speaking with all deference, I must 
confess that I have occasionally failed to be diverted in reading 
the proceedings of some historical society. The sombre 
exterior, which one of these volumes sometimes takes on, 
would throw the most cheerful library into the deepest gloom, 
from the effect of which the interior would mercifully afford 
a rescue by inducing profound slumber. 

We have reached the point where the housing of books has 
raised a serious problem, the difficulty of which would be 
much lessened by improving their quality at an unsparing 
expense of numbers. Our education has led us to attach an 
exaggerated value to books, simply as books, and a due amount 
of wood pulp, smeared over with printer's ink, attains a mys- 
tical importance although its value might be greater if it had 
remained a part of the living tree. 

Lord Rosebery, in speaking at the dedication of a great 
library building, recently said that he did not propose to 
repeat any of the 2'20,000 platitudes uttered at the dedication 
of the 2,200 libraries reared by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. On 
the other hand, he confessed to a feeling of depression in the 
presence of what seemed to him a cemetery for books. The 
volumes, which even the most diligent and widely learned man 
would be able to master or profitably to consult in the course 
of a long lifetime, would form only an insignificant fraction of 
those contained in any one of a hundred libraries. Due 
allowance must be made for the fact that great general libra- 
ries are not established merely to respond to the needs of one 
man or group of men, and that the largest single capacity is 
by no means the standard by which to judge. They should 
be adequate to supply the possible demands of all men. Even 
under the latter test some of the largest collections of books 
seem excessively large. It is said that the library of the 
British Museum with its millions of books contains many 
miles of shelves upon which the volumes slumber under the 
dust of years and the repose of which is not likely to be dis- 



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turbed so long as the collection shall endure. It may be 
granted that the few world-collections of books should contain 
every author. They are the reservoirs of all learning and the 
branches of rarer knowledge are likely to suffer injury, if the 
popularity of a book is in any degree made the test by which 
to determine whether it shall be preserved. There is, for 
example, only a very slight demand in this country for the 
originals of Russian history. And yet the managers of our 
Library of Congress had the wisdom to secure a great Russian 
collection and, with the exception of a few vast libraries in 
Russia itself, there is no place in the world where one, writing 
a history of that empire, can find a richer wealth of material 
than at Washington. Reduced to a basis of mere utility the 
writing of Russian history in America may not be important 
nor fraught with moment to the happiness of the Nation. 
But if we set up in all things the standard of utility civilization 
would very greatly shrink. 

But I imagine a case like that which I have mentioned is 
clear. The difficulty comes where books have no discernible 
value. Printing has grown into a place among the great 
manufacturing interests such as the making of shoes or cotton 
goods. The presses must be kept running. Each year hun- 
dreds of thousands of acres of noble trees are made to bow 
before the axe in order to furnish a part of the material of the 
industry. Much of this material is not greatly modified in 
value by the messages it is made to bear and our large libraries 
are in danger of adding to their normal functions that of the 
mere storehouse for lumber, unless some judicious process of 
selection shall be applied in choosing books and newspapers. 
As to the latter, whether the first duty in any given case 
would be one of suppression or preservation, one has but to 
imagine what would be the result if, by some great convulsion 
of nature, all the records of our time should be destroyed 
except those contained in the files of a given newspaper, and 
the learned men of some far distant age should study this 
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the Babylonian inscriptions. From one type of newspaper 
which has an existence today those wise men would feel 
certain in the discovery of an age of self-exploiting criminals, 
whose charities were as ostentatious as their crimes, an age 
which delighted in flaunting its worst men by putting them in 
public office, an abnormal and unbalanced age, the gross 
wickedness of which was relieved only by the superlative 
goodness of a mysterious institution, called the people, whose 
bodily existence was made manifest in the deeds and utter- 
ances of perhaps a half-score of men. New Hampshire is 
very likely deficient in newspapers of that sort. It can prob- 
ably not boast of one which would generally mislead a future 
writer, unless possibly as to the character of the editor of its 
rival. The files of your newspapers are invaluable as sources 
of current history and they are certainly indispensable to the 
preservation of local events. 

It is interesting to speculate upon what books should be 
preserved, keeping the boundaries widely extended even 
beyond the limit of use. I imagine there would be no question 
that those which contain the materials of history, in the 
broad sense of that term, or those which were scientific in 
their time, however obsolete their learning may have become, 
should be preserved. Those which have a literary purpose 
and base the claim of the right to exist upon purely literary 
grounds must be judged to an extent at least by the standards 
of that art. Of such books two types may be noted, which, 
while nominally of the same class, lie at such opposite extremes 
as not to be bedfellows of each other. The first type includes 
some of the so-called "best sellers" which after a brief vogue, 
commonly attained by every device of puffery, pass on to the 
oblivion of the neglected shelf. Some of them we would very 
willingly let die. The same summary fate should be visited 
upon the filth and rubbish far too often put out under the 
name of fiction, which teach bad morals in questionable gram- 
mar and in a vicious style. But the work of suppression 
should be pursued with caution for so many-sided a thing as 



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truth may have some one of its aspects caught and reflected 
in the mirror of some muddy pool as well as upon the broad 
expanse of a lake. 

At the other extreme may be found the choice and master 
spirits of their times, rarely popular in comparison with their 
ephemeral fellows of the moment, but immortal in their cur- 
rency. They live on from age to age and are the supreme 
expressions of the literary art. They are the classics not 
merely of Greece and Rome but of every land. They lie at 
the foundation of libraries as their study lies at the foundation 
of the truest culture. Any system of higher education which 
omits them fails in one of its most important ends. Our 
better natures are apt to assert themselves in spite of any 
system of training in books or schools, but operating alone, a 
system which has for its sole purpose to make man an efiicient 
instrument in attacking the forces of nature, may lower him 
to the plane of the forces with which he contends and reduce 
him to the level of materialism. 

Between the extremes to which I have referred, grading 
from the best on the one side to the most useless on the other, 
lie a great mass of books, some of which are very good and 
none wholly bad, and they form a valuable part of the world's 
aggregate of literature and learning, important to be trans- 
mitted to the future. It is possible that the ingenuity of 
man may hereafter devise some effective method for extracting 
the juices from books and taking from them what is really 
vital and useful in them. If that shall be done there will be a 
great mortality among books. 

But I should do only scant justice to this occasion if I neg- 
lected to refer to the noble history which is in your special 
keeping. And when I speak of your history I need hardly 
say that the term is far broader than the official transactions 
of the State, and that it comprehends the life, the character 
and achievements of her people, and the growth and develop- 
ment of the institutions with which her name is associated. 
The first settlement of New Hampshire did not have the 



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dramatic features to make it the splendid historical event 
seen in the landing at Plymouth. Indeed, it was to an impor- 
tant extent an offshoot of the Pilgrim Colony and that of 
Massachusetts Bay, and the founders of New Hampshire 
were chiefly of that same stock; they had the same virility, 
the same firmness of purpose, the same love of a freedom reg- 
ulated by law, the same intellectual and moral qualities. 
The stock at an early day was modified, and certainly not 
impaired, by a strong infusion of the Scotch-Irish and other 
bloods. The race spread over your valleys and hills from the 
Ocean to the White Mountains and by the time of the Revolu- 
tion these hardy pioneers had developed all the essentials of 
a stable, self-governing state. From that time to the present, 
there has been no part of the Union where the great ends of 
government have been more steadily and efficiently secured. 
Her sons were in the forefront at Bunker Hill and Bennington 
and upon the other fields of the Revolution, and there has 
been no hour of peril to the country or its institutions when 
they have not gloriously performed their part, whether in 
peace or war. She has not, indeed, been one of the prolific 
hives from which myriads of emigrants have swarmed to people 
other states and countries. Her population has not been 
great enough for that. But she has performed a higher part 
and has sent forth men who have greatly helped in shaping 
the political institutions of the Nation, who have guarded the 
destinies of great states and have aided in founding new 
empires. 

If you try to trace the influences that have made the America 
of today you touch the mainsprings of the Nation's history 
when you come to the hillsides of New Hampshire. Let me 
recur to just a few particulars. Horace Greeley first saw the 
light upon a small and barren farm in Amherst. Chase was 
born in the valley of the Connecticut upon a farm across 
which the western sun throws the shadow of Ascutney. 
When the mighty forces were ranging which were to determine 
the issue between freedom and slavery upon this continent 



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what influences were more potent in moulding opinion in 
favor of freedom than those wielded by the great statesman 
and by the great journalist whose names I have just spoken? 

And there is the supreme classical instance which the flight 
of years has but served to make brighter. America had 
received no clear mandate to be a Nation. Amid the jumble 
of clashing sovereignties, the conflict of sections and the 
growing differences over slavery, the Union seemed likely to 
crumble. It needed that a mighty word should be spoken 
and spoken as man almost never before spake. That word 
was uttered by a great son of New Hampshire. It had in it 
the strength of her mountains. It had in it the beauty of 
her lakes and valleys, the depth of her forests and the music 
of her streams. All over the North men heard it. They 
were charmed by it. They caught it up and repeated it again 
and again. It entered into their lives. It caused the sun of 
the Nation to shine. It inspired millions of men upon the 
battlefield. It bore the message that saved the Union. And 
the saving of the Union was necessary to the destruction of 
slavery. Lincoln and the glorious things for which he stood 
and will forever stand were made possible by your own 
Webster. 

And then we must not overlook the story of the founding 
and growth of j^our College, whose very foundations have been 
strengthened by the same generous hand that reared this 
building. It is at the summit of your admirable institutions 
of learning and your system of public instruction. From the 
time when Wheelock planted it in the wilderness it has grown 
in influence and strength, and it has aided in carrying the 
name of New Hampshire around the world. What tran- 
scendent good fortune has been hers to be associated with 
world-history events. In her own name, and because of her 
pathetic circumstances and the immortal eloquence of her 
advocate, was established the doctrine that the charter of a 
corporation was a contract with the state and thus came under 
the shield of the National Constitution. Under this palladium 



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that marvelous instrumentality of industrial development, 
the modern corporation, has been perfected, with all its evils, 
if you will, but also with all its benefits. Many of those evils 
have been cured, and the rest will yet be dealt with by the 
intelligence and sense of justice of the people. But the vast 
benefits are here. The wealth of the country has been many 
times multiplied, its population has been greatly increased. 
Vast regions which a century ago were unknown have been 
overlaced with railroads, great commonwealths have sprung 
into being, and the country has been made an industrial and 
commercial as well as a political unit. There may be those 
who will tell you it would be better if it were a smaller country. 
But a smaller country it would surely be had the court laid 
down the opposite doctrine in the College case. Before the 
people recognized the value of the co-operation, made possible 
on a large scale by the corporation alone, and while the prej- 
udice still existed against that creature without a soul, its 
development would have been arrested a hundred times by 
hostile legislation. It is a strange destiny that a New Eng- 
land college, struggling in the depths of poverty, should have 
been an important source out of which was to spring the most 
rapid and the most fabulous development of wealth which 
the world has ever known. And then through her great son 
her name will be forever linked with nationality and the 
preservation of the Union. 

There are some of us who love her for her less refulgent 
glories, those who are of her own household and know the 
splendid democracy which she teaches, her inspiration to 
learning and to noble living, and who have felt the spell and 
the witchery of her beauty. Long may the gentle sway of 
this queen of the peerless Connecticut rest lightly and lovingly 
upon the throngs of generous and happy youth, whom she 
shall gather about her upon her wide-spreading meadows and 
among her sun-kissed hills. 

Such is the character of the history which you are especially 
to cherish. It is not the sterile story of a political or an intel- 



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lectual province. This little commonwealth with her own 
history, her own traditions and her self-centred growth, giving 
richly as well as receiving from the Nation of which she is a 
part, shines serenely with her own light. It is your province 
to do what you can to make perfect the record of her splendid 
past and, let us hope, of her not less splendid future. It is 
a high and noble trust that is put in your keeping. 




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THE BANQUET 

AT THE conclusion of Mr. McCall's address the 
President invited the members and guests to a ban- 
quet given by the Society in honor of Edward 
Tuck, to be immediately served at the auditorium of the 
City Hall. 

The procession was again formed and marched to the audi- 
torium, where members and guests to the number of five hun- 
dred assembled at the tables. Grace was said by the Rt. Rev. 
William W. Niles, D. D., Bishop of New Hampshire. 

ADDRESS OF S.iJVIUEL C. EAST]VL\N 

At the conclusion of the banquet the President said: 

Greeting and welcoming you most cordially as guests of the New Hampshire 
Historical Society, it gives me pleasure to introduce to you a well-known and most 
zealous friend and member of the Society as toastmaster for this occasion, the Hon. 
Samuel C. Eastman of Concord. 

The New Hampshire Historical Society extends a cordial 
welcome to you who today honor us by your presence. The 
occasion is one of great importance to the Society. To dedi- 
cate our new building is to enter upon a new life, to open a new 
field and to establish new standards for the future activities 
and usefulness of the Society. We are encouraged by the 
attendance of so large a number not only of our own members, 
but also by the presence of our guests, who have come from a 
distance to manifest their interest in our welfare, and to join 
with us in this social hour in honor of our chief guest. 

The New Hampshire Historical Society was formed May 23, 
1825, at a meeting of representative citizens of our State. 
Among them were Ichabod Bartlett, Nathaniel A. Haven, Jr., 
Samuel Dana Bell, Jacob B. Moore and John Farmer, and the 

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60 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

first president was William Plumer, with Levi Woodbury as 
first vice-president, names still held in honor as solid, safe and 
eminent men. It has been said that real history can only be 
written by men of vivid imagination. This supplies that 
occasional flash of genius which so often enlivens the pages of 
Macaulay and enables us to realize the past in a way that no 
mere chronicler of bare facts can make possible. The men I 
have named and those associated with them, the founders of 
this Society, were men of that stamp. Though born and 
bred in the somewhat chilly atmosphere of Puritanic asce- 
ticism, they unconsciously, perhaps, imbibed from some source 
the inspiration of an enthusiastic imagination, and laid down 
a broad and liberal foundation for the Historical Society. In 
the preamble to the act of incorporation their aims and 
character are shown in the following words: 

"Whereas the persons hereinafter named have associated for the 
laudable purpose of collecting and preserving such books and papers 
as may illustrate the early history of the State and of acquiring and 
communicating the knowledge of the natural history and botanical 
and mineralogical productions of the State as well as for the general 
advancement of science and literature, and, whereas, the object of 
their association is of public utility and deserves to be encouraged, 
therefore be it enacted," etc. 

In the words of an almost contemporary New Hampshire 

poet: 

" No pent-up Utica contracts [their] powers." 

The whole field of cultured life and duty was before them and 
they entered upon the discharge of that duty with fidelity and 
zeal. Their idealism is shown in the high standards which 
they set up, imposing upon us, their successors, duties as yet 
unfulfilled. They clearly realized that if you think nobly 
noble action will surely follow. 

Yet if one of those founders had taken a nap in the attic 
room in which I first remember the archives of the Society, 
where the cobwebs hung dimly from the bare rafters over the 




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60 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

first i as William Plumer, with Levi Woodbury as 

ice-president, names still held in honor as solid, safe and 

'•'- " -^ Tt has been said that real history can only be 

■ of vivid imagination. This supplies that 

ional flash of genius which so often enlivens the pages of 

Macaulay and enables us to realize the past in a way that no 

mere chronicler of bare "" -^ ^re possible. The men I 

have ' < '' and thos*' them, the founders of 

this were men of that stamp. Though bom and 

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ti • ' ' ■ ' •■ ' ■ 

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charfi 

s th»' (jersona hfr^^iiiafter named have associated for the 
iauaable purpose of coli^ " such boi' 's 

as may illustrate the ear ^ . e and oJ , '. 

communicating the knowledge of t^i ' history and botanical 

n,i ■' ... ,. - j.j^^ ^tate its well as for the general 

ar -rature, and, whereas, the object of 

their association is of public utility and deserves to be encouraged, 
therefore be it enacted," etc 

.ijaH jai>[AQ 

In the words of an almost « 

poet: 

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The wbv.»le ti y was before them and 

thev tntt'red upoi. 'X...; ; ' " '" fidelity and 

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they set up, ns, duties as yet 

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= rt ii , ,,.^, ivni.., . .^ had taken a nap in the attic 

room in first remember the archives of the Society, 

where the cobwebs hung dimly from the bare rafters over the 

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scantily furnished shelves below, and dreamed that the Society 
dwelt in marble halls, not even the heathen god of dreams 
could have so excited his imagination as to have pictured the 
home in store for it which we have just left and which we have 
dedicated to history, science, literature, botany and mineralogy, 
to follow the words of the scheme laid down for us eighty 
years ago. No one ever lived and prospered on negation. 
Our progenitors were positive and hitched their wagon to a 
star, and we are enjoying the fruition of their ambition. 

It does not seem proper that this occasion should pass by 
without a tribute to the beautiful, classical design of our new 
building, which adds so much to the attractiveness of the square 
in which it stands. We owe this to the eminent architect, 
Guy Lowell of Boston. The universal verdict is that it is a 
gem of priceless value. (Applause.) 

Nor should the artist who modeled the group over the main 
entrance fail to receive his due mead of praise for the artistic 
skill with which he has performed his task. He has many 
works of art to his credit, and has added greatly to his reputa- 
tion as a sculptor by this, his latest achievement. I regret 
to say that with that modesty to which great artists so often 
yield, he refuses to allow his name to be placed on the list of 
speakers. Even if he is silent his works speak for him. 
(Applause.) 

Both building and group are cut from our own Concord 
granite and they will long remain as enduring monuments to 
the genius of their authors. 

Mr. Timothy P. Sullivan, who has faithfully watched over 
the work day by day, deserves commendation for the fidelity 
with which he has guarded against imperfections in material 
and mechanical execution. (Applause.) 

The building, compared with what we now have, may at 
first sight seem large for the uses of the Society. How shall 
we ever find books enough to fill the shelves and works of art 
enough to adorn the exhibition room? The purposes of the 
Society, as you have seen, are comprehensive. We must collect 



62 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

anything and everything relating to the State of New Hamp- 
shire, its towns and its people. All printed books, pamphlets 
and even broadsides have a place here. The utmost catho- 
licity of taste should guide the librarian, who indeed, if endowed 
with the spirit of his calling, will find it difficult to reject any 
printed book or manuscript bearing even in the most trivial 
manner on our State, or on the people, their life and customs. 
Just as the Mahomedan was said to be unwilling to step on a 
piece of paper for fear that he might dishonor the name of 
God, so the librarian is afraid to reject what may sometime be 
earnestly sought for. Professor Saintsbury once asked Dr. 
Richard Garnet of the British Museum "What do you do with 
that rubbish?" The answer came with a quaint smile: "Well, 
you see, it is very difficult to know what is rubbish today, and 
quite impossible to know what will be rubbish tomorrow." 
We need have no fear of too much space to fill, but rather of 
too little. Indeed, it has always seemed to me that no library 
should ever be built without a plan and ground for enlarge- 
ment as soon as the roof is on. 

The erection and completion of the building has been slow 
but thorough. For this latter quality, and indeed for careful, 
diligent and laborious oversight and planning too much praise 
cannot be given to the chairman of the Building Committee, 
Hon. Benjamin A. Kimball. He has been untiring in his devo- 
tion to the work and no detail has been too small for his 
supervision. With unstinted self-sacrifice he has given more 
than two years almost wholly to the Society and we are glad 
to record our recognition of its value. (Applause.) 

The land on which it stands has been fully paid for by 
contributions from persons interested in the Society aided by 
a large addition to the fund by Mr. Tuck. 

The donor, Mr. Edward Tuck, has exacted a promise that 
he shall not be called upon to speak at this banquet, even in 
response to a toast. We think that he is far too modest and 
greatly underrates his gifts. We must, however, respect his 
wishes and allow him to listen to us who are less worthy. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 63 

He forgot, fortunately, to pledge me not to speak of what he 
has done. The whole cost of this building, constructed from 
foundation to roof to last for centuries, absolutely fireproof, 
and admirably adapted to the purposes for which it is designed, 
as well as of a part of the land on which it stands, is his gift to 
the Society. As he has said, it is a token of his love for his 
native State. 

I can at least ask you to join with me in showing your 
appreciation of the gift he has bestowed upon the Society 
(turning toward Mr. Tuck, all those present rising,) and to 
you, Edward Tuck, and to your esteemed wife whose advice, 
good taste and countenance have at all times been freely at 
your service and contributed so much to the end at which 
you both aimed, we now one and all tender you our hearty 
thanks and our best wishes for many years of health and 
happiness. (Long and hearty applause.) 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY MR. TUCK 

I am touched by the honor that has been given to me today 
and by the very kind and hearty manner in which you have 
mentioned my name. After the eloquent addresses to which 
we have listened — and there are others which are to come, — 
I will not venture more than to say simply "Thank you" 
and to say that this occasion will remain always fresh in my 
memory as one of the most gratifjang of my life. I thank you. 

ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR ROBERT P. BASS 

The Toastmaster: The New Hampshire Historical Society is a society of the 
whole State. If it has not a member in every town it ought to have and I hope 
soon will have. All our citizens are interested in its purposes and objects. For 
this and other reasons our first toast is to 

"the state of new HAMPSnraE, CHERISHED BY U8 ALL." 

His Excellency Robert P. Bass, Governor of New Hampshire. 

It falls to the lot of but few men in my official position to 
represent their State on such a happy occasion. This building, 
which we have just dedicated, will serve as a link to bind the 
best of our history and traditions in the past with those 



64 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

achievements of the future which we so confidently expect. 
For this generous gift our distinguished guest, Mr. Edward 
Tuck, should receive the thanks, not only of the members of 
this Society, but of all those interested in the welfare of our 
commonwealth. I am here as chief magistrate of the State 
to convey to him in some measure the gratitude felt by all 
good citizens of New Hampshire. I cannot but realize the 
inadequacy of words for this task and I am convinced, knowing 
as I do the altruism of the man, that the greatest proof of our 
appreciation will be the high purpose to which we devote this 
building. 

It would seem most fitting that we should recall at this time 
the many important services rendered by that able, loyal and 
public-spirited citizen, Mr. Amos Tuck of Exeter, father of 
Mr. Edward Tuck. He held many offices of trust. He was 
for six years a member of Congress and his connection with the 
public affairs of the State and Nation was both long and influ- 
ential. It is indeed a pleasme on this day to do honor to his 
memory. 

Mr. Tuck, it is my opinion that this beautiful structure will 
furnish inspiration to historical students for generations to 
come. But it will do more. It will provide the means for 
perpetuating an intimate memory, not only of those great men 
of whom we are so justly proud, but also of the men unknown 
to fame who have contributed their substantial share toward 
making New Hampshire all that she now is. Furthermore, 
it will bring us in closer relation to the history of our State in 
the making. The beauty of this building and its harmonious 
relation and proximity to the State House forms a happy 
analogy from which we may gather the work which will be 
expected from members of this Society in the future. 

From the laboratory of the student of history and govern- 
ment will come the formulas which legislators must use in 
constructing the laws. The experience of mankind, as col- 
lected in history, furnishes the material for that laboratory. 
The science of government ought to be an exact science, drawn 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 65 

from the accumulation of accurate and complete historical 
data. The difficulty in the past has been that too frequently 
this data has been inexact, fragmentary and colored by the 
opinions and passions of men actually engaged in political or 
social conflict. Historians have too often considered that 
their work lay exclusively in the records of the past, and have 
ignored the fact that history is making every day and 
that there is at hand material invaluable to the future of 
humanity, which, if not gathered together at once, will vanish 
forever, leaving behind only vague memories. 

Official acts, public records, letters and speeches of individ- 
uals will remain, but that is not enough. The success or 
failure of the different branches of government, executive, 
legislative, even judiciary, lie interwoven in a vast number of 
incidents, which must be gathered, sifted and analyzed to 
reach accurate conclusions. It is only through the conscien- 
tious accumulation and co-ordination of such fleeting data 
that the true atmosphere may be known in which our greatest 
historical movements find birth. The historian should get 
this material by original research and not leave that work to 
chance. When he has done that he will become an even more 
vital force in the community, for to him must turn the men 
who are doing the work, who have not time in the turmoil and 
heat of active life to analyze and adequately construct. 

May this building be symbolical not only of New Hampshire's 
important part in the past history of the Nation, but also 
of the place she will maintain for herself in the future. Let 
the achievements of New Hampshire's sons in the days to come 
justify our donor's expectations as shown in the richness, 
the completeness and generosity of this gift. 

ADDRESS OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS 

The Toastmaster: We owe much to Massachusetts, which at one time exer- 
cised dominion over a large part of our State and imposed upon us laws which 
have very much perplexed our courts in late years, especially when applied to 
regions which were never a part of that commonwealth. We have tried to pay 
the debt by sending them senators, governors, members of Congress, judges, 
lawyers and doctors, so that the balance is now on our side. We have also 



66 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

followed the lead of Massachusetts in many ways. The first Historical Society 
was formed in Massachusetts, which is more vigorous now than ever before. 
We took pattern therefrom. It is, therefore, eminently proper that we should 
hear from the Massachusetts Historical Society today, and the President, a gentle- 
man eminent as a scholar, a soldier, a historian and a statesman, has consented 
to honor us by his presence. I give you 

"the historical societies of other states," 
and present Hon. Charles Francis Adams, President of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society. 

In the course of his most illuminating dedicatory address 
this morning, Mr. McCall made reference to Lord Rosebery, 
or the Earl of Midlothian, as I suppose he should now be called, 
and the commotion recently caused by him in British library 
circles. It was, you will remember, at a dedication similar 
to that of today, and he referred to public libraries as "ceme- 
teries of dead books." And Lord Rosebery otherwise at the 
same time fluttered the librarian dovecotes by commenting in 
tones closely resembling despair upon the present tendency to 
accumulate "literary rubbish"; a term I remember myself 
using some two years ago at Worcester, upon the laying of the 
corner stone of the building of the x\merican Antiquarian Soci- 
ety, applying it to the indiscriminate collection of printed mat- 
ter. More recently, at the opening of the Bishopsgate Library 
in London, his lordship has reverted to the subject, declaring 
that the British Museum must in time, — and not a very long 
time — become a sort of town in the middle of London; and he 
then added — "If the doctrine of grasping librarians be sound, 
this extension must go on at a vast and fruitless cost, enough 
to set the man who is not by nature bookish against everything 
in the form of literature." 

A tolerably sweeping indictment, this suggestion is undeni- 
ably germane to the present occasion — for we are here to dedi- 
cate yet another library building; but I want to call Lord 
Rosebery 's attention, as also the attention of our orator of the 
day, to the fact that these references to libraries as "ceme- 
teries of dead books" are by no means new. Henry Hallam, 
the author of the "Literary History of Europe" and "Europe 
in the Middle Ages," was, as a writer of a period close upon a 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 67 

century gone, not greatly given to figures of rhetoric; he is 
deemed even what is termed dry — distinctly lacking in those 
imaginative qualities to which Mr. McCall has made a not 
altogether approving reference. But, nevertheless, there is a 
passage in Hallam's "Europe in the Middle Ages" [Vol. Ill, 
p. 426] the words of which, striking my fancy when I first 
read the book as a college student over fifty years ago, have 
abided in my recollection ever since. The somewhat prosaic 
if very erudite historian there suddenly broke into poetry, 
exclaiming, — "The history of literature, like that of empire, 
is full of revolutions. Our public libraries are cemeteries of 
departed reputation; and the dust accumulating upon their 
untouched volumes speaks as forcibly as the grass that waves 
over the ruins of Babylon. Few, very few, for a hundred 
years past, have broken the repose of the immense works of the 
schoolmen." And referring to those same "schoolmen" in yet 
another passage, even more rhetorical in character, he, in his 
"Literary History of Europe" [Vol. I, p. 373] calls them the 
"champions of a long war," adding: — "These are they, and 
many more there were down to the middle of the seventeenth 
century, at whom, along the shelves of an ancient library, we 
look and pass by. They belong no more to man, but to the 
worm, the moth, the spider. Their dark and ribbed backs, 
their yellow leaves, their thousand folio pages, do not more 
repel us than the unprofitableness of their substance. Their 
prolixity, their barbarous style, the perpetual recurrence, in 
many, of syllogistic forms, the reliance, by way of proof, on 
authorities that have been abjured, the temporary and partial 
disputes, which can be neither interesting nor always intelli- 
gible at present, must soon put an end to the activity of the 
most industrious scholar." 

I do not propose now and here to venture further into the 
recesses and among the gravestones of this "cemetery." My 
time is limited, and I propose to confine myself to it; nor is this 
the place for treatises. Moreover, I have on this topic already 
said my say, which those curious on the subject may, if they 



68 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

choose to look, find in its proper place in the publications of 
the American Antiquarian Society. But yet before passing 
to other subjects I do want to say that I cannot regard the 
accumulation of printed matter as constituting a problem 
quite so insoluble as it seems to be in the opinion of Lord 
Rosebery or of Mr. McCall. To use somewhat long words, it 
is, in my opinion, merely a question of differentiation and co- 
operation. That any one library, either the Congressional or 
the British Museum, should have and retain on its shelves all 
printed matter is absurd to suppose. The accumulation buries 
itself in its own bulk. It gets beyond human ingenuity to 
handle it in such a way as to render its contents available. 
Why! — today, even, the reference room of the New York City 
Library contains four millions of cards, and the volume of 
those flowing daily in, numbered by hundreds, is, as the elder 
Weller once remarked in a wholly dissimilar connection "a 
swellin' wisibly before my wery eyes." Think, then, of the 
future; for even this is but the beginning! As a remedy, and 
obvious remedy, for this distinctly dropsical condition, we 
already differentiate to a degree; but, as yet, libraries almost 
wholly fail to co-operate. The Boston Athenseum, for instance, 
to which I propose to refer more particularly somewhat later, 
undertook when it was started a little over a century ago, 
to collect law, theology, science, medicine, and in fact to 
constitute itself a receptacle of knowledge on all subjects in 
addition to a collection of general literature. This idea was 
long since abandoned; and, today, no student or investigator 
in the different professions or callings thinks of going for pur- 
poses of research to any library except one devoted to his 
specialty. In the not remote future this differentiation will 
be carried much further, and co-operation will be reduced to a 
system. That will go far to solve Lord Rosebery 's problem; 
one copy of a book or periodical will be kept in its proper place, 
and the ninety-nine other copies will go to their own place, — 
probably the furnace. The time is now near when, for instance, 
nearly all periodical literature will drift into collections spe- 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 69 

cially devoted to their keeping. These will constitute deposi- 
taries by themselves, to which other libraries will refer. I 
look forward, therefore, with confidence to the time when in our 
libraries there will be periodical clearances of dead books; and 
books condemned as dead will not, as is usually supposed be 
consigned to the flames or sent to the pulp-mill, but after 
careful winnowing, they will be sent to that especial library or 
institution — wherever it may be — which devotes itself to the 
particular form in literature to which the dead book in question 
belongs. There they will repose in quiet, — one copy sufficing; 
whereas now the effort is to keep perhaps five hundred use- 
lessly shelved in diflFerent localities. 

Under such a system, what will then be the province of 
Historical Societies, such as ours in Massachusetts, — the 
mother of them all — or of this here in New Hampshire — one 
of its earliest children.'* My theory is that neither the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society nor the New Hampshire Historical 
Society is, properly speaking, a library at all. It is rather a 
catch-basin. Its specialty is to collect, receive and preserve 
the raw material of history, whatever that may be. If books, 
they are books never read and rarely consulted. The Histori- 
cal Society library is, in a word, a receptacle and clearing house 
of data, especially of manuscripts, whether records, diaries or 
correspondence. Yet of this vast mass of unprinted matter 
it is safe to say not one per cent, has value. None the less, 
that one per cent., — the grain of wheat in the bushel of chaff — 
needs to be carefully winnowed out; and to winnow it out is 
the function of the Historical Society. To that function it 
should in future more especially confine itself. Beyond that, 
it is for it, in so far as it can, to find room for the vast accumu- 
lation of printed matter, the output to no small extent of the 
government press, made up of journals of the day, historical 
studies, and that indescribable and immeasurable miscella- 
neous volume of such matter for which place cannot be found 
in the general public library, much less in any private collection. 

After accumulation, safety is the great desideratum for which 



70 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF TEE 

costly provision must be made. And now let me improve 
the occasion by an example. Today we have in Boston a col- 
lection of infinite value, exposed daily to the utmost risk. 
Like the New York State Library, it may tomorrow go up 
in smoke. I refer to the Boston Athenaeum. Owing to 
the sentimental feelings and pernicious activity, — as I can- 
not but call it, — of certain Boston ladies who had from child- 
hood looked upon the Athenaeum building on old Beacon 
Street as one of the city's most precious architectural monu- 
ments, the Athenseum collection, the loss of which would be 
wholly irreparable, is kept in one of the most ingeniously ill- 
arranged of library buildings and, incidentally, a thorough- 
going fire-trap. It is but necessary to go there, and, guided 
by the courteous librarian, to look about, to reach the conclu- 
sion that the edifice is not only a very bad fire-risk, but by 
no possible expenditure of money, no matter how freely used, 
could it be converted into a library structure either modern 
or convenient. I myself well remember the laying of its 
corner stone, nearly seventy years ago. I distinctly recall 
seeing, as a boy, President Quincy, then a man of seventy-five, 
delivering an open-air address to the not large number of 
people gathered on Beacon Street to listen to him. In those 
days builders had no conception of what is now known as fire- 
proof construction; and the convenient interior arrangement 
of a public library for the reception and use of a large collection 
of books was a thing as yet wholly undeveloped by architects. 
On the other hand, that Atheneeum building now contains a 
collection which, if lost, simply could not be replaced, — a 
collection absolutely unique. 

The other day a volume of the Gutenberg Bible was sold 
for $30,000; a copy of the first folio of Shakespeare commands, 
I believe, some $6,000. Valuable as curiosities, no loss would 
be sustained from any practical point of view if either or 
both of those highly prized volumes passed out of existence. 
Themselves reproduced through modern facsimile processes, 
their contents exist in countless republications. Copies can 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 71 



be obtained of any desired shape and size, and at prices to 
suit the most exacting collector or modest purchaser. It is 
altogether otherwise with any file of an eighteenth century 
newspaper. That, if lost, is gone,— it cannot be replaced. Im- 
possible of reprinting, it can neither be facsimiled nor copied. 
Its reproduction is out of the question. Money cannot buy a 
duplicate. Yet today, while in view of the extreme inflamma- 
bility of the building, a number of pamphlets and manuscripts 
of the Boston Athenaeum, every one of which is in print else- 
where or could be reproduced or copied, have been placed in a 
fire-proof safe, its files of newspapers, numbering many thou- 
sand volumes, are deposited in rooms from which, in case of 
conflagration, their removal would be impossible. It would 
be merely a question of their being reduced to ashes or to 
pulp, — destruction by fire or destruction by water. As 
one of the proprietors of the Boston Athenseum, I have repeat- 
edly said in public, and now say again, such a storing of 
a body of printed matter, the replacement of which if destroyed 
is out of the question, is in these days, in every respect except 
law, a continuing breach of trust. It is morally criminal, 
though not a statutory off'ence. The owners have no right 
to expose it to such a risk. Remember the recent conflagra- 
tion at Albany! Every day that the collection of the Boston 
Athenseum, though a private collection, is retained where it is, 
a fresh burden of responsibility rests upon the heads of those 
female sentimentalists, who, years ago, made impossible its 
removal to a place of security, where it could be properly 
consulted. 

I have now improved the present occasion by bearing public 
witness on a matter concerning which I feel strongly. At 
least it is gratifying to think that whatever you may here 
collect,— and the collections of the New Hampshire Historical 
Society are most valuable,— they are, thanks to Mr. Tuck, 
safe within the building this day dedicated, from the two great 
enemies of historical material,— fire and damp, and per- 
manently accessible to the investigator and student. I wish 



72 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF THE 

most devoutly that your counterpart, Mr. Tuck, would today 
not only put in an appearance, but from what he both sees 
and hears would drink an inspiration as the benefactor as well 
as a proprietor of the Boston Athenaeum. 

ADDRESS OF GUY LOWELL 

The Toastmasteh: There is no part of the civiUzed world, ancient or modern, 
where buildings erected for public purposes are not the most interesting and instruc- 
tive of the works of man. It is the architect who furnished the knowledge and the 
genius which inspired and secured the erection of these buildings. Without him we 
might have had a shelter in which to take refuge, but not the monumental pile 
which inspires awe, admiration and veneration. Our building is one of the class 
which will long be visited, admired and revered. In it the architect has given us 
the result of his best studies and efforts. It will always be a work to which he and 
his children can point with pride. I am glad that we are to hear from him. I 
give you: 

"architecture, the M03T ENDORING MEMORIAL OF THE PAST. ' 

I present to respond, our architect, Guy Lowell, of Boston. 

It gives me very great pleasure today when all of us have 
uppermost in our mind the duty that is imposed upon us to 
hand down to posterity the priceless records and memorials of 
the past, to be called upon to speak on architecture as " the most 
enduring memorial of the past." I think those words of Mr. 
Eastman are expressive, because in so far as architecture has 
been enduring in the past, history has been enduring, and the 
history of architecture is the history of civilization. The 
first builder, when the human race was primitive and nomadic 
was called on only to build a shelter against the weather, but 
as time went on man's life became more civilized and his 
institutions became stable. Then the first architect who 
practiced architecture as a fine art, tried to add to his building 
something besides practical utility. He tried to add beauty. 
He tried, in other words, to express an idea, so little by little 
architects have shown, in doing the work of what you might 
call their trade, a desire to add beauty and to express some of 
the emotions. So today, in looking back into the past, we 
find that there has been added to the utilitarian, first, 
beauty of decoration, and then that the architect, by means of 




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mos vour coimtCTpart, Mr. Tuck, would to<lay 

pearance, but from what he both sees 
ink an inspiration as the benefactor as well 
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ADDRESS OF GUY LOWELL 

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beauty and decoration has often tried to tell a story and that 
with the assistance of the painter and of the sculptor, he has 
succeeded in handing down monuments which are lasting records 
of what men have accomplished in the past. We get a sense 
of the power of mankind, a knowledge of the institutions he 
has established, his power in accomplishing deeds, almost 
entirely from his buildings and monuments, just as we get 
a sensation of the grandeur and the majest}^ of the Almighty 
from nature. 

We have tried in this building to express an idea, and it is 
successful in so far as it does express the simplicity and the 
dignity and the straightforward character of the men who have 
made history in this State and of those men, who, in perpetuat- 
ing it, have shown that they carried deep in their hearts a love 
for their country and for their State. 

As La Rochefoucauld says in his two hundred and fiftieth 
maxim that true eloquence consists of saying that which is 
necessary and leaving out that which is superfluous, I am going 
to sit down. 

ADDRESS OF SAMUEL L. POWERS 

The Toastmaster: The small college that there are those who love has grown to 
be a large college with its thousands of graduates who not only love but almost 
worship it. Our constitution enforces the nurture of institutions of learning, and 
the State is beginning to recognize its duty to Dartmouth, of whose success and 
high rank we are all so proud. There is a reciprocal relation and influence which 
cannot be too often or too strongly emphasized. Our next toast is: 

"DARTMOUTH AND THE ST.ATE: WHAT WOtTLD ONE DO WITHOUT THE OTHER?" 

I regret to announce that President Nichols who was to respond for the College has 
been ordered to the seclusion of a dark room by his physician. He has deputed 
Hon. Samuel L. Powers, a member of the Board of Trustees, to take his place and I 
have the honor of now presenting him to you. 

Whenever you observe me sitting at the head table on a 
great occasion like this, and called upon to make a speech 
you can well understand that someone is ill. If I may be 
permitted to use a football phrase at this season of the year, 
I belong to what is called the second team. I never get 
into play in a great game unless someone on the first team is 



74 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

injured. For the past two weeks I have been following the 
fortunes, or rather misfortunes, of football. Following my 
team to Princeton I saw it lose by misfortune. Following my 
team to Cambridge I saw it lose by another misfortune, and 
I come here today to find that the old College has met with 
another serious misfortune, and must go down to defeat on 
this occasion because the official head of the institution is not 
present. I regret quite as much as anyone can that Doctor 
Nichols is not here today to speak for Dartmouth. 

The toast which you have assigned, or did assign, to Presi- 
dent Nichols, is the State of New Hampshire and Dartmouth 
College. Can anyone think of one without thinking of the 
other? The College is twenty years older than the State, and 
for nearly a century and a quarter they have gone on as a 
married couple, and have had but one family jar, and that is 
pretty good for more than a century of married life. As I 
look back to that difficulty which arose between the College 
and the State so many years ago, I am reminded that it occurred 
early during the married life of the College and the State, and 
I am rather inclined to think that the College was more respon- 
sible for that trouble than the State. Had the trustees not 
been in controversy with each other, and in controversy with 
the President, the State undoubtedly would not have inter- 
fered, and my feeling is that the interference on the part of 
the State was purely in the interest of the College. The State 
interfered because it loved the College, and wanted to see it 
prosper. However, when the decision was reached by the 
highest judicial tribunal in the land, it settled forever the 
controversy between the State and the College, and that deci- 
sion not only proved of the greatest value to Dartmouth, 
but to every educational institution in America. Permit me 
to say to the Governor that I believe that the State of New 
Hampshire has no fault to find with Dartmouth College at 
the present time. 

During the past fifteen years, covering the efficient and 
brilliant administration of Doctor Tucker, and including the 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 75 



limited portion of the administration of his successor, I think 
you will agree with me in saying that Dartmouth has been 
doing great work. 

Dartmouth is proud of New Hampshire, and New Hamp- 
shire is proud of Dartmouth. The college is not alone edu- 
cating New Hampshire boys. Four fifths of all the students 
at Dartmouth come from outside the limits of New Hampshire, 
and nearly one half are now coming from outside the limits 
of New England. We are not alone educating the boys of 
this State, but we are educating the boys from every part of 
the Union. What is true of Dartmouth is also true of two 
of the great preparatory schools located in the State. I refer 
to your splendid school here in Concord — St. Paul's — and to 
the ancient academy located at Exeter, where at least four fifths 
of all the boys come from outside of New Hampshire to be 
prepared for college within this State. Surely New Hampshire 
has made her impression upon the country as a state devoted 
to education. What is it that makes a great state or a great 
college.' Greatness of this character is not to be measured 
by commerce or wealth. A state becomes great by reason of 
the character of its people, and not by reason of the wealth 
of its population. And what is true of the state is equally 
true of the college. A college becomes great because it repre- 
sents character, and the work which Dartmouth and New 
Hampshire are doing today is in the development of character, 
in sending forth to the world strong and reliant men. 

I said a moment ago that it is difiicult to even think of 
New Hampshire without thinking of the College. In the 
Statuary Hall at Washington this State has placed two statues 
representing its two foremost men. One is of General Stark, 
the other of Daniel Webster. You cannot think of General 
Stark without thinking of New Hampshire. You cannot think 
of Daniel Webster without thinking of Dartmouth College. 
They truly represent both the State and the College, and we 
can name many men now living who fairly represent both the 
State and the College. I see before me one man well advanced 



76 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

in years, but still a youth in mental and physical action, whose 
love for New Hampshire and for Dartmouth has always been 
of the most intense character. I never look into the face of 
David Cross without being reminded both of New Hampshire 
and Dartmouth College. 

Let me say to you, Mr. Tuck, that the College as well as 
the State recognizes the great obligations under which they 
have been placed by your munificent and timely gifts. These 
gifts have made Dartmouth more efficient, and have made its 
sons more loyal and devoted to its cause. You have taught 
us what a loyal son, who has the means and the disposition 
to act, can do for the College. Your generous gift to the 
Historical Society of New Hampshire proves your devotion 
to your native State, and has made every citizen of New 
Hampshire feel a little prouder of his own State, and inspired 
him with greater loyalty to it. May what has already been 
said prove true, that you and also Mrs. Tuck, who has joined 
you in this great work, both live long and prosper and be the 
happier by reason of what you have done. 

Mr. Adams has suggested that while you are engaged in 
this character of work you come to Massachusetts and con- 
tinue the work there. My suggestion, however, is that you 
do not start out on the mission suggested by Mr. Adams until 
you have fully completed what you had in mind to do for 
Dartmouth and New Hampshire. 

POEM BY MISS EDNA DEAN PROCTOR 

The Toastmaster: We have no reason to be ashamed of New Hampshire's 
place among the poets of our Xation. While Sewall, from whom I have already 
quoted, in his book of 300 pages wrote only two lines that have made him known. 
Miss Proctor has WTitten many poems which are read and loved. She is always 
faithful to her native State and is one of our guests today and has consented to 
recite her poem, 

"the mountain maid." 
I introduce to you Miss Edna Dean Proctor. 

There is an ancient saying: "He who honors his birthplace 
honors himself." What honor, then, has the guest of today 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 77 

who has enriched New Hampshire's historic College and roy- 
ally housed her records? From Canada to the sea New Hamp- 
shire is a poet lyric, epic, but I like to represent her as 

THE MOUNTAm MAID 

O the Mountain Maid, New Hampshire ! 

Her steps are light and free, 
Whether she treads the lofty heights 

Or follows the brooks to the sea ! 
Her eyes are clear as the skies that hang 

Over her hills of snow. 
And her hair is dark as the densest shade 

That falls where the fir-trees grow — 
The fir-trees slender and sombre 

That climb from the vales below. 

Sweet is her voice as the robin's 

In a lull of the wind of March 
Wooing the rosy arbutus 

At the roots of the budding larch; 
And rich as the ravishing echoes 

On still Franconia's lake 
When the boatman winds his magic horn 

And the tongues of the wood awake, 
Wliile the huge Stone-Face forgets to frown 

And the hare peeps out of the brake. 

The blasts of stormy December 

But brighten the bloom on her cheek, 
And the snows build her statelier temples 

Than to goddess were reared by the Greek. 
She welcomes the fervid summer. 

And flies to the sounding shore 
WTiere bleak Boar's Head looks seaward, 

Set in the billows' roar. 
And dreams of her sailors and fishers 

Till cool days come once more. 

Then how fair is the maiden. 
Crowned with the scarlet leaves. 



78 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 



And wrapped in the tender, misty veil 

Her Indian Summer weaves ! — 
While the aster blue, and the goldenrod. 

And immortelles, clustering sweet, 
From Canada down to the sea have spread 

A carpet for her feet; 
And the faint witch-hazel buds unfold. 

Her latest smile to greet. 

She loves the song of the reaper; 

The ring of the woodman's steel; 
The whir of the glancing shuttle; 

The rush of the tireless wheel. 
But, if war befalls, her sons she calls 

From mill and forge and lea. 
And bids them uphold her banner 

Till the land from strife is free; 
And she hews her oaks into mighty ships 

That sweep the foe from the sea. 

O the Mountam Maid, New Hampshire! 

For beauty and wit and will 
I'll pledge her, in draughts from her crystal springs. 

Rarest on plain or hill ! 
New York is princess in purple 

By the gems of her cities crowned; 
Illinois with the garland of Ceres 

Her tresses of gold has bound. 
Queen of the limitless prairies 

Whose great sheaves heap the ground ; 

And out by the vast Pacific 

Their gay young sisters say: 
"Ours are the mines of the Indies, 

And the treasures of far Cathay"; 
And the dames of the South walk proudly 

Where the fig and the orange fall 
And, hid in the high magnolias. 

The mocking thrushes call; 
But the Mountain Maid, New Hampshire, 

Is the rarest of them all ! 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 79 



ADDRESS OF SENATOR JACOB H. GALLINGER 

The Toastmaster: Constructive statemanship is no ordinary gift. New Hamp- 
shire has a long line of illustrious men who in this field have sustained the reputa- 
tion of our State as one of the thirteen colonies which carried on the War of the 
Revolution and made the constitution. To the toast: 

"new Hampshire's place in the senate of the united states," 
I call on our senior senator, the Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger, to respond. 

I have been asked to briefly speak to the toast of "New 
Hampshire in the Senate," and it would be ungracious of 
me did I not improve the occasion to express my deep appre- 
ciation of the honor bestowed upon me by the people of the 
State in repeated elections to that body. When I think of 
the long list of able men who have represented New Hampshire 
in the Senate of the United States, the extent of the confidence 
my fellow-citizens have shown me intensifies the gratitude I 
have always felt for their generous consideration. 

The Senate of the United States has engaged the attention 
of writers and speakers from the beginning of the government 
to the present time, and doubtless will continue to do so as 
long as the Republic lasts. Of late years men like the late 
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts have eloquently defended the 
Senate, contending that it was completely fulfilling the pur- 
pose of its founders, while the sensationalist and the muck- 
raker, in New Hampshire as well as elsewhere, have called 
it the Millionaire's Club, and have charged it with almost 
every iniquity that could possibly attach itself to a legislative 
body. After twenty years' observation I believe the Senate 
is composed of men who equal, in ability and integrity, the 
membership of any other similar body in the world, while 
unquestionably its habits of deliberation and conservatism 
are of the highest value to the best interests of the country. 
Separated in a measure from popular clamor, it is largely free 
from influences that might otherwise sway it, and thus it 
can be relied upon to stand for measures and policies that 
sometimes are unpopular, and that the future alone can 
vindicate. 



80 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

"New Hampshire in the Senate" is a theme that calls up 
both personal recollection and historical fact. From the 
beginning of the first Congress to the present time New Hamp- 
shire has had her representatives in the Senate, and they 
have favorably compared with those who represented other 
sections of the country in that great forum. Before call- 
ing attention to some of them it may not be amiss to cite 
the fact that New Hampshire has contributed to other states 
some of the ablest senators that have ever held seats in that 
body. For instance, we gave Daniel Webster to Massachu- 
setts, Salmon P. Chase to Ohio, William Pitt Fessenden to 
Maine, Zachariah Chandler and Lewis Cass to Michigan, and 
James W. Grimes to Iowa, a galaxy of names hard to match 
anywhere. 

The first two senators from New Hampshire were John 
Langdon and Paul Wingate, the commencement of their 
service being March 4, 1789. John Langdon was the first 
president pro tempore of the Senate, in which position he was 
shortly followed by Samuel Livermore, another New Hampshire 
man, and later by Daniel Clark of Manchester. No man in 
our history has a record that excels that of John Langdon. 
As I pointed out on a former occasion, shortly after General 
Stark's resignation from the army the cause of independence 
was in the greatest possible danger. Washington was driven 
from post to post; Philadelphia, abandoned by Congress, was 
taken by the British. A strong British army was marching 
from Canada, threatening all New England. The outlook 
was desperate. New Hampshire had done all that she could, 
and, as public credit was at a low ebb, it was doutbful if another 
regiment could be raised and supported. The authorities of 
Vermont had notified New Hampshire that unless speedy 
assistance was forthcoming the contest must be abandoned. 
The New Hampshire Assembly, which had adjourned only a 
short time before, was speedily convened, and the condition 
of the country was laid before that body. In this important 
crisis, John Langdon, a merchant of Portsmouth, and speaker 
of the Assembly, immortalized himself by saying: 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 81 



"I have three thousand dollars in hard money. I will 
pledge my plate for three thousand more. I have seventy 
hogshead of Tabago rum, which shall be sold for the most it 
will bring. These are at the service of the State. If we 
succeed in defending our firesides and homes I may be remu- 
nerated. If we do not the property will be of no value to me. 
Our old friend Stark, who so nobly defended the honor of 
our State at Bunker Hill, can be safely entrusted with the 
conduct of the enterprise, and we will check the progress of 
Burgoyne." 

These patriotic words gave new life to the cause of the 
struggling colonists. The entire militia of the State was formed 
in two brigades, one to be commanded by John Stark and the 
other by William Whipple. The battle of Bennington shortly 
followed, concerning which Washington said, "One more such 
stroke and we shall have no great cause of anxiety." The 
"one more stroke" came speedily in the surrender of Burgoyne. 
In view of this incident is it not safe to say that one of the first 
senators from New Hampshire, by his patriotism and gener- 
osity, turned the tide at a critical moment, and made American 
independence a reality? 

It would be interesting, did time permit, to call the roll of 
the men who have represented New Hampshire in the Senate 
of the United States. I can only name a few at random. 
Samuel Livermore, Nicholas Oilman, Henry Hubbard, Levi 
Woodbury, William Plumer, Samuel Bell, Jeremiah Mason, 
Isaac Hill, Franklin Pierce, Joseph Cilley, John P. Hale, 
Charles 0. Atherton, Daniel Clark, Aaron H. Cragin, Henry 
W. Blair, James W. Patterson, Bainbridge Wadleigh, Austin 
F. Pike, Edward H. Rollins and Wilham E. Chandler. In 
this list are the names of several great lawyers, at the head of 
which stands the name of Jeremiah Mason, of whom Daniel 
Webster once said: "If you were to ask me who was the great- 
est lawyer in the country I should answer John Marshall, but 
if you took me by the throat, and pinned me to the wall, and 
demanded my real opinion, I should be compelled to say it 



82 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

was Jeremiah Mason." Others might well be added, but those 
I have named will serve to demonstrate the fact that New 
Hampshire has been well and ably represented in the upper 
branch of Congress. 

Within my recollection other strong men like Amos Tuck, 
Aaron F. Stevens, Orren C. Mooi-e, James F. Briggs, Charles 
H. Burns, Mason W. Tappan and Thomas M. Edwards have 
aspired to a place in the Senate. Had any one of them been 
elected he would have graced the position, and their defeat 
in no degree dimmed the lustre of their services to the State 
and Nation. Of these men Amos Tuck, the father of our 
honored guest, deserves special mention. 

After distinguishing himself in the practice of law Mr. 
Tuck was elected to the National House of Representatives 
in 1847, where he served with much distinction for six years. 

Formerly a Democrat he was then known as an "anti- 
slavery independent," and in 1848 he made a famous anti- 
slavery speech in Congress. 

Mr. Tuck was always independent in his political views, 
and if any man in our State deserved the name of " Progressive" 
it was he. In connection with his Congressional career it is 
interesting to recall the fact that more than sixty years ago 
he offered in Congress a resolution in favor of international 
arbitration, a subject that is now being warmly discussed 
by the American people and which is before the Senate in 
the shape of treaties. 

Mr. Tuck stood by John P. Hale when the latter was vio- 
lently assailed for his Free Soil views, and he was among the 
first, if not the first, to advocate the abolition of slavery in 
the District of Columbia. 

While in Congress Mr. Tuck made many speeches which 
attracted attention, and it was said of him that when he left 
that body he had conferred lasting distinction on his State, 
and that his name had the right to be carved with that of 
John P. Hale as New Hampshire's earliest champion of the 
cause of human freedom. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



In 1853 Mr. Tuck was instrumental in calling a meeting at 
Exeter, at which meeting the RepubHcan party was born, 
Mr. Tuck suggesting the name for the new organization. 
In 1856 he was elected a delegate to the National Republican 
Convention at Philadelphia, which convention nominated 
Fremont, and he was also a delegate to the National Conven- 
tion of 1860, at which time he renewed his earlier acquaint- 
ance with Abraham Lincoln, whose election he warmly 
espoused. Mr. Lincoln had in mind the selection of Mr. 
Tuck as the New England member of his cabinet, but ulti- 
mately the place was given to Mr. Welles of Connecticut. 
Shortly after, however, Mr. Tuck was appointed by President 
Lincoln to the honorable position of Naval Officer of Customs 
at the Port of Boston, which place he ably filled. When 
that service was ended Mr. Tuck retired to private life, 
devoting his time to business, educational and charitable 
affairs, and in 1879 he passed away, honored and respected by 
the people of the State. Such a man would have been a worthy 
associate in the Senate of the great men who made up that body 
during the stirring period preceding and following the Civil War. 

In thus recalling to your minds the able men who have 
represented New Hampshire in the Senate I cannot forego 
the opportunity of remarking that all of them were men of 
moderate means, who were the natural selection of their fellow- 
citizens because of their fitness for this exalted position. For 
nearly a century and a quarter we have been electing senators 
from this state, and during that time there has never been a 
scandal connected with any senatorial election. In some 
instances the choice has brought keen disappointment to the 
supporters of candidates who sought this high honor, but that 
disappointment has not been embittered by the thought 
that corruption had influenced the selection. 

New Hampshire senators have acted well their part in every 
emergency. John Langdon rose to the occasion when the 
Colonial army was in sore straits; John P. Hale valiantly 
fought the battle of freedom and liberty in the days that 



84 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

tried men's souls; Henry W. Blair was a tower of strength in 
matters of legislation regarding temperance and education, 
while in the struggle to save the Nation, to reconstruct the 
Union, to resume specie payments, to defeat the fallacy of the 
free and unlimited coinage of silver and secure the adoption 
of the gold standard, to uphold the doctrine of protection to 
American industries and American labor, in these and similar 
crises the senators from New Hampshire have never flinched, 
or hesitated to do what they conceived to be for the best 
interests of the American people. With such a record our 
past is secure, and we can confidently feel that the future is 
full of promise so far as the material and moral interests of our 
State are concerned. Our plain duty is to be loyal to the 
traditions and the institutions which have made us a free, 
happy, prosperous and enlightened people, and we need have 
no apprehensions that our representatives in the Senate will 
not always prove themselves worthy of the confidence and 
esteem of their fellow-citizens. 

It is undeniable that the tendency of the times is toward 
a change in the method of electing senators. Something 
new is demanded. In the place of representative government 
it is proposed to create something approaching a pure democ- 
racy. History teaches us that democracies have their perils. 
Therefore, we who have been guided by the lamp of experi- 
ence, and who have been taught to venerate the work of those 
who won our independence and created from the chaos that 
followed the Revolutionary War a plan of government that 
commanded the admiration of mankind, should hesitate to 
make radical changes in the existing system in response to a 
demand from any quarter. In this matter, as in some others, 
it may be better to bear the evils that exist, if any do exist, 
than to fly to those we know not of. If the people of this 
State have been slow to change the constitutional method of 
electing senators by taking from their representatives in the 
Legislature the power of selection and placing it in the hands 
of the electors it has been undoubtedly due to the results at- 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 85 



tained under our system of government as established by the 
fathers of the Republic. The very able men who have been 
my predecessors in the Senate from New Hampshire have thus 
far satisfied our people that the founders of our government 
acted wisely in the scheme that they, after great deliberation, 
agreed upon, and no change from that method should be made 
without the most careful and thorough consideration. 

A single word more. What a splendid example Mr. Tuck 
has set in his benefactions to Dartmouth College and in the 
erection of this beautiful structure for the New Hampshire 
Historical Society. Money was never more appropriately 
or wisely spent. Long after Mr. Tuck's useful career has 
come to an end, the people of his native State, upon which he 
has shed so much lustre, will bless and honor him for his noble 
and generous deeds. May he long be spared to continue to 
teach the lessons of love of home, of State and Nation, so pro- 
foundly and beautifully exemplified in his own life of simplic- 
ity, of lofty ideals and splendid achievements. 

ADDRESS OF GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE 

The Toastm aster: The American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia is the old- 
est of our allied associations. It was founded and fostered by Benjamin Franklin 
and was the recipient of the earliest reports of his discoveries. It celebrated iU 
hundredth anniversary not many years ago; our Society had the honor of an 
invitation and participated in the exercises by the presence of one of our mem- 
bers. The Society has in turn sent its delegate to our dedication and I am glad to 
present Prof. George L. Kittredge and proffer our good wishes for the continued 
prosperity of the old but ever young 

"AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: OUR OLDEST ALLY." 

One of the eloquent men who preceded me began his re- 
marks by observing facetiously that, whenever he arose to 
speak, you might be sure that somebody was not well. My 
case is worse than his. The personage whom I represent 
today is dead. For I stand here as the humble representative 
of Benjamin Franklin, who went to his reward some years 
ago, though his spirit, I presume, is hovering over us on this 

occasion. 
The name of the American Philosophical Society, as whose 



86 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF TEE 

humble delegate I appear, is rather terrifying. Why, Ladies 
and Gentlemen, I have actually been accused, as I sat here at 
this table, of being a professor of philosophy — which Heaven 
forbid! The fact is, as you know, that in the old days when 
the Philosophical Society was founded by Benjamin Franklin, 
the term "philosophy" covered almost as much as the charter 
of the New Hampshire Historical Society covers. It covered 
all knowledge. In particular, the American Philosophical 
Society was established for the promotion of useful knowledge. 
Now I come before you, Ladies and Gentlemen, not as a 
representative of useful knowledge, for very little that I 
know is of practical use to anybody, but as an advocate of 
iiseless learning. One of the purposes of an historical society, 
I take it, is to store up things that seem to be useless, to foster 
the investigation of subjects that are of no immediate moment, 
— and incidentally to ameliorate the condition of the human 
race. Of course, in describing myself as an advocate of useless 
learning, I employ the term in a high sense, in an exoteric 
sense, which (if any of you feel doubtful about it) I must leave 
you to excogitate for yourself. As Shakespeare says, "the 
search," at all events, will be "profitable." And to search 
is undoubtedly the function of all historical societies. That 
is a golden motto of Shakespeare's — the search is 'profitable. A 
man goes out to shoot a rabbit or he goes out to catch a 
trout. What he brings home may be of slight practical utility. 
It is the by-products of his little expedition that do the man 
good. 

There are two points, that I should like to speak of. Brev- 
ity, however, is imperative; for my time is strictly limited. 
One of these is the question, propounded by your toastmaster, 
whether Massachusetts has furnished New Hampshire with 
a number of laws which your learned jurists find some diflS- 
culty in interpreting. Very likely that is the fact. But in 
the neighborhood of Boston, when I am at home, it is com- 
monly supposed that Dartmouth College has furnished the 
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body of lawyers who find it worth their while to interpret the 
laws of Massachusetts as they are, and as they think they 

ought to be. 

The other point (and this is all I have time to say, in addi- 
tion to bringing you the greetings of Benjamin Franklin and 
of the American Philosophical Society)— the other point is 
this matter of sifting, which a previous speaker has adverted 
to. One hears a great deal nowadays about the necessity 
of sifting the materials that accumulate. "Sift, sift, sift!" 
is the advice constantly given to librarians and to the cus- 
todians of documents. Now sifting, in the sense here used, 
implies rejection— it implies destruction as well as preserva- 
tion. And that thought should give us pause. Are we quite 
sure that we know exactly what we ought to throw away? 
For my own part, I should be perfectly willing to see a general 
sifting of all the historical material that is piled up in our 
libraries and our archives, if we could find any sifter who 
should know how to sift them as people five hundred years 
hence will wish they had been sifted, if sifted at all! 

ADDRESS OF CHARLES R. CORNING 

The Toastmaster: The City of Concord, first Penacook, then Rumford, nat- 
urally has always been largely represented in the Historical Society. We who live 
here are proud that our city is the capital of the State and the center of many of 
the important interests of our community and we strive to see that high standards 
of schools, churches and other mstruments of culture are maintained. 

I am going to present to you to respond for the city one who has been several times 
elected mayor, a gentleman of scholarly tastes, and an efficient laborer in the field 
of historic research. He is also the author of a thoughtful and faithful sketch of 
the life and services of Amos Tuck, of whom Senator Gallinger has spoken, the father 
of Edward Tuck, which alone would entitle him to your favorable regard. Judge 
Charles R. Cornmg, who will speak to you of 

"concord, the home of the new hampshibe historical society." 

To speak for Concord is always a pleasure, but on this 
occasion I esteem it an honor. As a native of Concord I 
confess to a feeling of pride in responding to this toast. 

It is not permitted us, I believe, to select our birthplace, 
and, if it were permitted, I can assure you that I should in 



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no way have changed the course of nature. Therefore, let 
me frankly acknowledge my pride and satisfaction to claim 
New Hampshire for my native state and Concord for my 
native town. 

As American towns go, Concord has graced our map for 
almost 200 years, for it was in 1725 that the General Court of 
Massachusetts granted the charter of Penacook which not long 
afterward gave way to the more euphonious name of Concord. 
From the beginning this community has been an epitome, a 
not unfaithful representation of the history of New England 
towns. The pioneers penetrating the unbroken wilderness, 
the early appropriation for the meeting house and the school 
house, the long and vexatious litigation arising from conflicting 
boundaries imposed by the General Court of Massachusetts 
and of New Hampshire, the settlement of these difficulties, and 
then the natural bent toward politics and the coming of suc- 
cessive legislatures. At last, in 1816, Concord became the 
capital of the State. Yet all these things happened within 
the first hundred years. 

Commerce began with the stage coaches keeping open the 
commercial intercourse between Canada and tide-water. 
Then followed the picturesque era of the canal boat and its 
passing in favor of the railroads; then the shock of war and 
noble sacrifices making Concord an armed camp for four 
awful years; then peace and following in its train progress 
and prosperity. And yet Concord with all this has not builded 
altogether along the lines that characterize so many New Eng- 
land towns. In many respects our material development has 
been very unusual. For some reason the founders of the 
great cotton industries stopped at a point below us on the 
river, and there began the gigantic industry which today 
has become one of the wonders of the age. And yet the 
music of the Merrimack dancing over Sewall's Falls sounded 
in their ears as it has sounded since dawn of time in Concord's 
ears, but it possessed no siren call. 

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cord is not for us today. Concord, as we see it, is in its sixth 
or seventh generation, an attractive picture of moderate 
achievement. Strangers visiting us are wont to ask what 
supports Concord. Statistics even in a historical society are 
not wholly fascinating, but I want you to know that we have 
more than fourscore industries turning out finished products 
amounting to $7,000,000 yearly and employing between three 
and four thousand wage earners. Let it be said that all this is 
the aggregation of non-intensive industries and let it go at 
that. I wonder where the savings of the people express 
thrift better distributed than in this city. It is an interesting 
revelation. The population of Concord is 21,500, and we 
have here four savings banks. The amount in these four 
savings banks belonging to Concord residents is $7,534,418.68, 
and the number of resident depositors is 14,662. 

Politically Concord has had a prominent position in the 
annals of the State and Nation as is natural in a region largely 
inhabited by orators and politicians as was remarked once 
upon a time by a jealous New York statesman. I rejoice to 
say that neglect of New England's strongest traits, support of 
the common schools, has never been charged to Concord. 
Schools, the touchstone of American heart and hearth, have 
ever been precious to our people from the earliest times and 
never more precious and beloved than now when one third 
of all the levied taxes goes to our common schools. 

Wealth as popularly understood has never been indigenous 
in our community. Probably no millionaire citizen has ever 
walked our streets, yet the well to do among us are astonish- 
ingly numerous as I have already shown, and these perhaps 
are some of Concord's distinctions which I may properly 
mention. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Concord welcomes you all on this 
benign occasion. In the spirit of Auld Lang Syne, which after 
all should be the spirit actuating our venerable Society, Con- 
cord gives you her good right hand, and particularly does 
Concord welcome this distinguished and generous son of 



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New Hampshire who today confers upon the city her richest 
jewel, a gem amongst the choicest gems that glorify the cities 
of men. Nor do we forget at this moment the gracious lady 
whose love of the beautiful has found expression in the mag- 
nificent gift of her husband. Concord will never forget this 
day and its splendid gift nor cease to cherish the honored 
name of Edward Tuck. 

ADDRESS OF FRANK B. SANBORN 

The Toastmaster: It is not the first time that Frank B. Sanborn has contributed 
to the instruction and entertainment of the New Hampshire Historical Society. He 
was born in Hampton Falls, the home and burial place of Meschek Weare, not far 
from the home of Mr. Tuck. He has been both a maker of history and an author 
of a valued history of his native state. He is eminently qualified to speak on 

"new HAMPSHIRE HISTORIANS AND HISTORY MAKERS." 

I present Mr. Frank B. Sanborn. 

Following the example of my presiding officer in the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society, Mr. Adams, I shall not make the 
speech which I wrote for this occasion. I shall, however, pre- 
sent it to the Society with a little story which I learned many 
years ago from the father of the distinguished sculptor who sits 
at my right hand. Judge French who lived for a while in our 
Concord came back from Washington on one occasion, and he 
said: "What do you suppose the boys in the city of Washing- 
ton say about Greenough's statue of Washington which is 
represented in the classic form, almost naked, holding his 
sword in his hand? The boys make the Father of his Country 
say: 'Here is my sword. My clothes are up at the Patent 
Office.'" 

My speech will be found in the archives of the Historical 
Society, subject to the sifting process of which several gentle- 
men have already spoken. I shall confine myself to the subject 
of my discussion which was "New Hampshire Historians 
and History Makers." I make a distinction. Although I 
am not quite sure, I believe I am the only living person who 
has actually written and published a history of New Hamp- 
shire. Other historians wrote their books and died, but here 



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I am. By historians I mean the persons who engage in works 
of imagination; for history is a work of imagination. When a 
historian like Mr. Bancroft, or others that might be named, 
rise so high in their flights of imagination that they get an 
appreciable, and sometimes an inappreciable distance from 
the facts, they are then brought down, as a balloon is brought 
down by its rope, to the Historical Society, and there they 
find the facts they have been romancing about. 

Now, my examples of history-makers in New Hampshire 
were confined I think to four who succeeded each other, chron- 
ologically. One was my ancestor, Edward Gove, who had the 
distinction, I believe, that no New Hampshire man ever en- 
joyed before or since, of having been a prisoner in the Tower of 
London for three years for high treason. He was convicted of 
high treason on a little island which is now called New Castle, 
near Portsmouth. He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn 
and quartered, and although a good many of his descendants 
have deserved at least a portion of that sentence, 3'et it was 
the duty of the royal governor, Edward Cranfield, who was 
certainly one of the greatest scoundrels that ever appeared 
in New Hampshire, to send him to England and there have 
him executed by King Charles II. He was sent over, put in 
the Tower and supported there at the expense of the King of 
England for about three years, and then James II, finding 
him perfectly harmless and a good citizen, pardoned him and 
sent him back to his home in what is now the town of Seabrook, 
and ordered that his estate which had been confiscated — and 
that was the principal reason for convicting him of treason, 
the governor wanting to make a considerable sum out of his 
property — should be ascertained and restored to him. But 
so careless had been the Massachusetts authorities, I am sorry 
to say, that upon investigation we are unable to find on record 
anywhere in Massachusetts how he got his estate back. His 
family, however, possessing that quality which Mayor Corn- 
ing has spoken of, — knowing how to save property, when 
they once got it, — the sons and daughters of my ancestor, 



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contrived to take the property into their own hands (or a consi- 
derable part of it,) so it should not come under confiscation. 
Governor Cranfield says in two or three letters to his patron in 
England, Mr. Blathwayt, that he can only get hold of two 
hundred pounds of that property, and that not payable for a 
year to come. In fact, Cranfield was required to get out of 
the State, followed by the execrations of all the people, before 
he received more than a hundred pounds from my ancestor's 
lands and house. 

I pass him by and come to Colonel Weare, who has been 
mentioned in history several times. He belonged to a family 
more distinguished in the first century of the existence of New 
Hampshire as Province and State, than any other. His grand- 
father was one of the justices of the Province; was sent on a 
mission to England in Cranfield's time; and I suppose it was 
Justice Weare who obtained, by his presence and by applying 
a few pounds to officials in the neighborhood of Whitehall, 
and by persuading the Earl of Halifax, then president of the 
Privy Council, that Cranfield was dismissed, a year from the 
time when Weare was there. Colonel Weare the grandson was 
in some respects the most remarkable of New Hampshire 
politicians. He held public office in his town and in the Prov- 
ince and the State longer I think than any one, holding 
every office possible, both in town, province and state for more 
than forty years. He died in 1786 poorer than when he entered 
active life; made no money out of his long public service, 
left what little property he had to his children, and that family 
is now extinct. I think there is no person now bearing the 
name of Weare descended from the old Colonel, but he con- 
tributed more than any individual on the battlefield to the 
success of the Revolution, so far as New Hampshire is con- 
cerned. 

Then I come to General Stark. Now, we know a great deal 
about General Stark's service in the field, but here is a little 
anecdote, giving a record of one of his conversations which I 
think is worth reading. It comes from the recently published 



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diary of Reverend Doctor Bentley of Salem, who in 1810 
made a journey from Salem to Manchester, then called Derry- 
field, to visit General Stark, and this is his record: 

"May 31, 1810. At Gen. Stark's. I delivered him some 
wine which I told him came from Mt. Olympus, the seat of 
the heroes after they became gods. 'Yes,' said he, 'after they 
began to enslave the men they saved. Just like our drunken 
Arnold's promise, — part, and then betray.' Stark said 'he 
knew no religion but Virtue: drank no wine but that of his 
own country: was no god among men. They should accept 
from Heaven no gifts but Liberty and Virtue.' " 

Bentley added, — "Stark's conversation has no refinement, 
but deep sincerity. His independent mind gathered little 
from the history of Religion, but everything from his own 
generous disposition. His researches from History were small, 
and his memory of them careless; but he spent all his enthu- 
siasm in favor of Virtue and Patriotism. He said, ' I flatter no 
man, — he who flatters me disputes with me; I do not flatter 
myself, — I have as much pride in my opinions as any man, 
for they are the heart and soul of me.' 

" I dined with him upon the shad of the Merrimac below his 
house, and lodged in the family. We talked much; he said, 
'The worst embargo is upon the plow and the spinning-wheel. 
A free people never think themselves dependent upon any 
people. They exchange, but sell themselves in no bargain.' " 

Stark was a man who, when a special state banner was pro- 
posed, about the year 1785, after the Revolution, said that 
it should bear the legend "Freedom and not Conquest," a 
motto that the United States may well remember. 

As Colonel Weare was dying in my native town, in 1786, 
Daniel Webster was growing up in childhood at the town of 
Salisbury (what is now called Franklin), and Webster is my 
fourth history-maker. These men, Gove, Weare and Stark, 
had a good deal to do with the history of New Hampshire, 
and Stark and Weare with the history of the country. Web- 
ster held a different position. I differ from some of the speakers 



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and writers about Webster. Webster was a very distant 
cousin of mine, so I have every right to speak ill of him; 
as Wendell Phillips said: "You may safely abuse any man 
to his cousin." With all his powers of intellect, Webster was 
one of those over whose defeat history is made, rather than by 
their chosen leadership in a successful path. He was the 
champion of losing causes; at first of the separatist Federal 
party, which could not bear to see power pass away from New 
England and South Carolina to Virginia and Kentucky; then 
of the commercial class in New England, contending vainly 
amidst the clamor of high tariff, against Clay and Pennsyl- 
vania; then in behalf of the banking interest against the master- 
ful popularity of Andrew Jackson; then against the annexation 
of Texas — defeat in all these causes; and finally in a desperate 
effort to check the rising tide of anti-slavery sentiment, deter- 
mined to restrict and then to destroy negro slavery. To offset 
all this negation — sometimes right, and often wrong, but 
always defeated — Webster is to be admired, and now, perhaps 
more than ever, for his splendid oratory and his magnificent 
leadership, with the intrepid support of Jackson, in the cause 
of Union and Liberty against Secession and Slavery. Webster 
did not live to see the final triumph of that righteous cause; 
he even did something in his old age to retard it; but his argu- 
ments and noble words were incentives to contest and victory, 
while he slept in his lonely tomb at Marshfield. 

I want to say a few words about my old friend, Amos Tuck, 
whom I knew many years ago, and who was all that has been 
said in his praise by the orators today. Amos Tuck led in 
a movement which rescued the State of New Hampshire from 
the control of the pro-slavery democracy. He and one of his 
friends called the first convention that led to the organization 
of what were then called "Independent Democrats," and he 
properly became their representative in Congress afterwards. 
He was a very genial, amiable and pleasant companion, and 
he had a great many good stories. He also is a cousin of mine. 
Mr. Edward Tuck does not know that I am his fifth cousin on 



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both sides. I found, when I looked up our genealogy, that 
my father by one intermarriage was the third and by another 
marriage he was the fourth cousin, of Amos Tuck, so I have a 
sort of a half and half relation to Mr. Edward Tuck. His father 
was not born in the old town of Hampton; he was born in Maine, 
but came to Hampton to be educated; and the Hampton 
stories he told me, I think have some reference to the objects 
of the New Hampshire Historical Society. One of them relates 
to the shape of the earth and the other to the propagation of 
truth. He said there was an old carpenter in Hampton when 
he was fitting for college at Hampton Academy, who had not 
been instructed by the American Philosophical Society. As 
he was hewing a log one day, while young Tuck was going to 
the academy, he stopped Mr. Tuck (being a genial person) 
and also stopped his hewing, and he said: "What be they 
teachin' on you up to the cattemy? They say the world's 
round. If I had 'em here, I'd stick my broad ax into 'em." 
The other story is a parable for historians, and I find they 
frequently need it. Mr. Tuck said there was a little boy in 
Hampton, — I didn't inquire his surname, for fear it might 
be a distant cousin. His front name was Sam, and he was 
very much given to romancing. One day he came to his 
mother and told her one of these great stories, and she said: 
"Sammy, I don't know what's going to happen to you if you go 
on telling such lies. Don't you remember what I read you out 
of the Bible the other day about Ananias and Sapphira, — how 
they told a lie and fell down dead." 

"Oh, yes," said Sam. "I 'members; I was at the funeral." 
I have met historians (I belong to that class myself), who seem 
to have taken lessons in the same school with little Sam; and 
I hope the New Hampshire Historical Society will prevail 
upon such persons to examine the facts before they publish 
their books. 



APPENDICES 



APPENDICES 



THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY* 

By Henry McFarland 

November, 1908 
RETROSPECTIVE 

The New Hampshire Historical Society regards the picturesque city of 
Portsmouth as its birthplace, and the date as May 20, 1823. There is a 
record of an earlier meeting of certain of its friends at Exeter, that attrac- 
tive seat of learning, on March 13 of the same year. The Society's charter 
is dated June 13, 1823, and its home has been in Concord since that date. 
It has always been fortunate in its membership. On its early records 
are among others the names of Jeremiah Mason, Levi Woodbury, Ichabod 
Bartlett and Nathaniel A. Haven of Portsmouth; Oliver W. B. Peabody 
of Exeter; William Plumer of Epping; Joel Parker of Keene, and John 
Farmer and Jacob B. Moore of Concord. These men would impart char- 
acter and impetus to any undertaking. All had scholarly tastes. Many of 
them were learned in the law. In 1823 Levi Woodbury was Governor of 
the State and he was afterward Secretary of the Treasury of the United 
States; WilUam Plumer had been Governor; Ichabod Bartlett was then 
a member of Congress; Jeremiah Mason had been a United States Senator; 
Joel Parker was afterward chief justice of the New Hampshire Courts, and 
Oliver W. B. Peabody was a poet of no mean celebrity. Of them all none 
were more useful and more resourceful in forwarding the objects of the 
Society than John Farmer, the genial apothecary, and Jacob B. Moore, 
the publisher and printer. The work of these two in historical directions 
is well known. The first gift to the library of the Society was a volume 
from the last named gentleman. The first considerable money gift was 
the sum of twenty dollars from Levi Woodbury. 

At the outset it was intended to limit the membership of the Society to 
fifty resident and fifty honorary members, but this purpose was afterward 
enlarged. In the few succeeding years up to 1840 the records show among 
others as resident members Matthew Harvey, Samuel D. Bell, Nathaniel 
P. Rogers, Isaac Hill, Nathaniel G. Upham, PhiUp Carigain, William H. Y. 



* Major Henry McFarland died May 15, 1911. Thb sketch was prepared to be read at 
the laying of the corner stone. 

09 



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Hackett, Nathan Lord, Jeremiah Smith, Ira Perley, Asa McFarland, and 
Nathaniel Bouton, and as honorary members Nathaniel H. Carter, Joseph 
E. Worcester, Lewis Cass and George Bancroft. The later roll of resident 
membership, which includes persons from all over the State, would be at 
least as interesting, but would of course be too long for reproduction here. 
Hon. Amos Tuck was elected to membership in 1853. The name of Hon. 
Joseph B. Walker has been on the list of resident members longer than 
that of any other living person, it having been there since 1845. 

Hon. WilUam Plumer was the first president of the Society, John Farmer, 
recording secretary, and Jacob B. Moore its first librarian. 

At the early meeting in Portsmouth, which has already been mentioned, 
a Constitution was adopted which provided that "the objects of the Society 
shall be to discover, procure and preserve whatever may relate to the 
natural, civil, ecclesiastical and literary history of the United States in 
general, and of this State in particular." 

The income of the Society for the first year of its existence was $115, 
made up of nineteen membership fees and the gift from Hon. Levi Wood- 
bury which is above mentioned. 

Ten years after its beginning the Society's Ubrary was in an upper room 
of the south wing of the State House, and its annual meetings were then 
and afterward held either in the Senate Chamber or the Council Room 
of the State. It was an early custom to have an annual pubhc address of 
historical or biographical character deUvered in the hall of the House of 
Representatives. These interesting addresses, many of which have been 
printed in the Society's Collections, have since been more frequent, and 
the place of delivery has finally become the Society's own premises. This 
early use of the State House suggests the kindly view which the representa- 
tives of the State took toward the objects of the Society, useful as they are 
both to the community and to the individual citizen. 

At the annual meeting of the Society, June 10, 1835, a committee was 
appointed to ask the Legislature to grant an appropriation sufficient to 
erect a suitable building for the Society's use. If this proposal had found 
favor, it is almost certain that in that day of small things a building then 
deemed sufficient would in a few later years have proven quite insufficient. 

The income of the Society has never been burdensome, and the expenses 
have been kept within suitable limits. In 1841 copies of its charter, by- 
laws, and Ust of members were furnished gratuitously by a Concord printer. 
A debt of one hundred dollars, created on some hopeful occasion, existed 
for several years, but was paid in 1859 by a gift of that sum from Hon. 
Samuel D. Bell. There was deliberation for a long time about building a 
suitable fence around the monument on the Hopkinton road, entrusted to 
the Society by Hon. Richard Bradley, which commemorates the locaUty 



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of the fight with the Indians in 1746, but finally the fence was built about 
1870, from funds provided by Mrs. Harvey Jewell, a daughter of Mr. 
Bradley. If its income had been larger, the Ubrary and accomplishments 
of the organization would doubtless have been greater, but on the whole 
it seems suitable to say that the course of the Society has lain for the most 
part among the Fortunate Isles. 

In 1872 there was talk of raising a permanent fund of $5,000, and this 
purpose was gradually effected and enlarged. 

In 1874 the membership of the Society included one hundred and thirty- 
seven active resident members, and in 1884 the library was found to con- 
tain more than ten thousand volumes. A very considerable accession 
came to the library in June, 1873, as the gift of Hon. Charles H. Bell, being 
books by New Hampshire authors or printed by New Hampshire printers. 
In 1877 Hon. Lorenzo Sabine, a native of Lisbon, this state, author of 
"Loyalists of the American Revolution," died in Massachusetts. It 
appeared by an unexecuted codicil to his will that it was his purpose to 
bequeath his valuable library to the Society. This purpose was confirmed 
and recently executed by his family — an instance of the good fortune to 
which allusion has been made. There have been further valued gifts, 
either antiquities, autographs, books, coins, portraits, or revolutionary 
relics from various individual friends. The memorials and letters of 
Daniel Webster given by Peter Harvey are priceless, and the memorials of 
Abraham Lincoln given by WiUiam E. Chandler and Edward Ashton 
RolUns are at least as precious. An interesting collection of photographs 
of New Hampshire men has recently been presented by the New Hamp- 
shire Club. 

Among a considerable number of portraits in oil colors are those of 
Daniel Webster, Jeremy Belknap, Peter Harvey, Franklin Pierce, Dudley 
Leavitt, William C. Todd, Nathaniel Bouton, Benjamin Pierce, Abraham 
Burnham and Nathaniel G. Upham. There is a bust of Daniel Webster 
which seems to be a cast from the original marble by Hiram Powers, the 
history of which cannot just now be ascertained, and one of the Marquis 
de Lafayette presented by Benjamin A. Kimball. The latter is placed on 
a marble shaft found in the ruins of ancient Rome. Other gifts of books 
and objects of historic or artistic interest have been tendered to the Society 
for its acceptance if deemed desirable when there shall be space for such. 

The Ubrary now contains about 15,000 volumes, also very many pam- 
phlets and manuscripts and files of newspapers, bound and unbound. Not 
long ago a considerable number of its books which were deemed not essen- 
tial for the Society's purposes, and which were dupUcates of more complete 
collections in the State Library were donated to other libraries, and by that 
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frequent resort of persons from far and near who are engaged in historical 
research for both pubHc and private purposes, and it is the testimony of 
those who prepared the new History of Concord that without the use of 
this library that undertaking could not have been satisfactorily performed. 
In fact, tlie writers of every considerable town history in the State have 
been indebted to this Ubrary for material. 

The Society has pubUshed from time to time ten volumes of Historical 
Collections and four volumes of its own Proceedings. These issues can be 
found in many public libraries throughout the United States. 

There are now about one hundred and fifty names on the active resident 
list of members. 

PROSPECTIVE 

It has been stated on a preceding page that the first location of the 
Society's library was in a room of the State House. In 1837 the hall over 
the Concord Bank (now No. 51 North Main Street) was so occupied. 
In 1841 there had been a removal thence to the larger hall over the Merri- 
mack County Bank. In this building the library and the interesting 
collection of antiquities and portraits (in oils and photography) have since 
remained. In 1869 the gifts of about one hundred friends ($3,200) enabled 
the Society to become the owner of the building, and in 1872 the sum of 
$1,180 was raised by subscription to adapt it to the Society's exclusive 
use. In 1896 the sum of $4,000 from the current funds of the Society was 
expended in further improvements. In 1898 by the expenditure of $1,800 
the Society secured adjacent land. At the annual meeting in 1900, Hon. 
William C. Todd of Atkinson offered $5,000 toward a fund for an addition 
to the hbrary building, on condition that a Uke sum be contributed by 
others. The condition was fulfilled, and in a short time $10,000 was 
paid into the treasury and made the beginning of the library building 
fund. To this the trustees of the John H. Pearson fund have more recently 
added $5,000, and $5,000 more has come as a legacy from the estate of 
Nathaniel Sherman Bouton, late of Chicago. Other considerable gifts 
toward this purpose have been paid into the treasury, and further pledges 
have been made. About $20,000 more is needed to extinguish the cost 
of the new building site, and there should ultimately be a large addition 
to the permanent fund for maintenance. Toward such maintenance the 
State contributes the sum of $500 annually. 

In 1903 a committee, which had been appointed to consider making an 
addition to the present building or constructing a new one, reported that 
it was inexpedient to make the addition, and that the fund was insufficient 
to construct a suitable new fire-proof building. Somewhat later Mr. 
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generous friend of Dartmouth College (from which he was graduated in 
1862) and of various other good causes at home and abroad, interested 
himself in a plan to construct a building, sufEcient for all the objects of the 
Society, which would be an enduring example of classical architecture. 
For such a building the site which commended itself to Mr. Tuck, and to 
others, is the one which has been chosen, having frontage on three streets — 
State, Park and Green. This site is near the State House (the first home 
of the Society's books) and the State Library, and the new building planned 
by Mr. Guy Lowell, architect, which the munificence of Mr. Tuck has made 
possible, is one of the most noteworthy of a group clustered in a neighbor- 
hood that in general impressiveness is scarcely excelled in New England. 

Of the donor of the new building the Genealogical History of New Hamp- 
shire says: 

"The most noticeable characteristic of Mr. Tuck is his desire that those 
within the range of his friendship shall share in the good fortune which 
has attended his efforts. His private benefactions are constant and gen- 
erous, though discriminating. Of his pubUc benefactions the most marked 
has been the gift of $500,000 to his 'Alma Mater' for purposes of instruc- 
tion, followed by the gift of $133,000 for a lecture and recitation hall. 
This gift made in 1899 bears the name of the Amos Tuck Endowment 
Fund, and is a memorial to liis honored father who was a graduate of 
Dartmouth in 1835 and a trustee of the college from 1857 to 1866. This 
gift is significant of Mr. Tuck's thoughtful generosity in that it was alto- 
gether unsolicited, the expression of his loyalty and affection both for his 
father and for his 'Alma Mater.' . . . Mr. Tuck has kept alive his early 
interest in literature and art. His leisure, if such it may be called, is only 
the larger opportunity for the exercise of a well trained mind. Though 
for many years a resident of Paris, Mr. Tuck keeps his house in New York, 
and is a member of the Metropolitan and the Union clubs. Few men are 
better informed in regard to poUtical as well as economic and financial 
conditions in this country." 

The designs for the new building, made by Mr. Guy Lowell after patient 
study and reflection, indicate an edifice so attractive that in the near 
future the number of visitors and students seeking the Society's premises 
will doubtless be greatly enlarged. 

MR. LOWELL'S DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING. 

"The proposed building for the New Hampshire Historical Society is 
to be of classic dignity. The exterior, all of granite, is designed in the 
Greek Doric spirit, the forward pavillions being each marked by two mas- 
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The entrance is accentuated by two columns flanking the large door, 
above which is the seal of the Society in bold relief. 

The entrance vestibule leads directly to the memorial hall, thirty-two 
feet in diameter, all in marble. 

At the left is the large reading room, fifty-seven by thirty-one feet, 
designed on the alcove system, where may be kept ten thousand volumes. 
Directly above is the stack room where may be stored forty thousand 
volumes. 

The librarian's office and storage vault for valuable documents directly 
join the library. 

At the right of the memorial hall is the lecture room, with platform. 
This room will seat three hundred persons. 

A monumental staircase leads directly from the memorial hall to the 
floor above, where there is a large exhibition room and three smaller rooms 
for exliibits or collections. 

The whole building is to be fire-proof throughout, of the most modern 
construction, completely equipped in every way. 

The interior as well as the exterior will be of a dignified, monumental 
type, a fitting home for the New Hampshire Historical Society." 







NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 105 

II 

LETTERS 

FROM THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE 

Ambassade 
De La Republique Francaise, 
Aux Etats-Unis 

Washington, November 12, 1911. 

Dear Sir: — 

I have delayed somewhat answering the Historical Society's most kind 
and tempting invitation in the hope of being able to disentangle myself 
from obligations I have for next week, but they proved too tight for me, 
and I have quite reluctantly to say that it will not be possible for my wife 
and me to be present at the banquet of the 23rd. 

Any one who knows Mr. Edward Tuck, and you all know him, you know 
him well, will understand our regret: no need to insist on it. But I want 
to say that we in France, in no way yield to any one, nay not even to you, 
in our admiration of and gratitude for this model citizen of the other great 
Republic, a man of few words and many deeds, who is welcome to be as 
modest as he chooses, but of whom you and we may truly be proud — you 
and we, since he hails from your country, and since, to all appearances, he 
does not dislike ours; an upholder, wherever he lives, of Hberal ideas, of 
that peculiar kind of liberalism which combines with warmth of heart and 
ever ready generosity. 

With best wishes for your Society whose prosperity is now more than 
ever assured, thanks to your guest of honor, I beg you to believe me. 

Sincerely yours, 

Jusserand, 
French Ambassador. 

Mr. H. A. Kimball, 

Recording Secretary, 

N. H. Historical Society, 
Concord, N. H. 



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FROM HONORABLE JOHN BIGELOW 

21 Gramerct Park, 
November 8th, 1911. 
Mr. Henry A. Kimball, 

Recording Secretary of the New 
Hampshire Historical Society. 
Dear Sir: — 

I beg to make my cordial thanks acceptable to your Historical Society 
for its invitations to the dedication of its Library Building and to the 
banquet in honor of my valued friend Edward Tuck. 

I greatly regret that I dare not promise myself the pleasure of accepting 
either of these invitations. 

My health is much too precarious for so long a journey in this season 
of the year. It would be a great pleasure to meet with your Society on 
the 23rd instant if for no other reason than to congratulate it upon having 
such a friend as Edward Tuck, as for many years I have congratulated 
myself upon having such a friend. Unlike too large a proportion of men 
who love to praise their own works Mr. Tuck prefers to let his works praise 
him. 

I commend him as an excellent example for all the world to imitate. 

Yours very respectfully, 

John Bigelow. 



FROM GENER.\L HOR.\CE PORTER 

2T7 Madison Avenue, New York. 

Dear Sir: — 

I write this to express more particularly my profound regret at being 
unable to be present at the Dedication of the Library Building and to 
unite with you in doing honor to my old and highly esteemed friend Mr. 
Edward Tuck. 

The gift of this building is very characteristic of him. His generosity and 
liberality displayed upon so many occasions in Paris and elsewhere have 
endeared him to the hearts of all the Americans abroad as well as the French. 
His charities have been princely. I congratulate your Society most heart- 
ily as the recipient of the gift it has received and in ha\-ing for a donor 
such a friend and well-wisher as Mr. Tuck. 

Yours very sincerely, 

Horace Porter. 

November 17, 1911. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 107 

FROM BARON D'ESTOURNELLES DE CONSTANT 

Republique Fkancaise 
Senat 

Paris, November 18, 1911. 

To the Hun. B. A. Kimball, N. H. Historical Society of Concord, New Hamp- 
shire. 
Dear Sirs: — 

I wish I could be present at the banquet given in honor of my friend 
Edward Tuck by the New Hampshire Historical Society of Concord on 
Thursday next, November 23rd. Unfortunately your kind invitation 
arrived not only too late for me to write you in time, but a few months 
after I came back myself from my "inoubliable" visit to the United States. 

I am very sorry to miss this unexpected opportunity to hear many 
things which I did ignore completely and to tell you some other things 
which you probably do not know. 

Indeed I knew absolutely nothing of the great work which our mutual 
friend Mr. Tuck has been preparing for several years in America; I see him 
very often; I thought I knew most of his efforts for supporting the great 
and good causes; but I confess that he never said a word about Concord 
and about your Society, except for praising warmly what his friends do 
there, exactly as if he had done nothing himself. 

Very likely you ignore in America that he is doing in France all that is 
in his power to help, to serve, to encourage and to recomfort so many good 
people who need assistance. 

One country was not enough for the expansion of his heart; you honor 
him as an American citizen; we love him as a Frenchman. 

His devotion to so many different duties is fortified and multiplied by 
the constant co-operation of his wife, Mrs. Tuck, always ready to agree 
with him in order to give not only materially, but morally, her life and his 
life to liberal and human enterprises. 

The difficulty is to know who is the first of them to start these enter- 
prises, as they never speak of them; but the less they speak, the more 
their friends have the duty to give them, as you have done by organizing 
your banquet, as an example. 

Be good enough, dear sir, to interpret my deep regrets not to have been 
present at your banquet and please express them on behalf of many French 
people to the many American friends of Mr. and Mrs. Tuck. 

Yours sincerely, 
(Signed) d'Estournelles de Constant. 



ii. 



MEMBERSHIP 



MEMBERSHIP 

ACTIVE MEMBERS 

Abbott, Frances M., Concord, N. H. 

Abbott, Isaac N., Concord, N. H. 

Abbott, John B., Concord, N. H. 

Aiken, Edwin J., Concord, N. H. 

Albin, John H., Concord, N. H. 

Amen, Harlan P., Exeter, N. H. 

Amsden, Harry H., Concord, N. H. 

Anderson, Helen D., (Mrs. Henry W.) Exeter, N. H. 

Anderson, Henry W., Exeter, N. H. 

Andrews, Frank P., Concord, N. H. 

Atwater, Mrs. Harriet Stark Chase, Pasadena, Cal. 

Baer, Mrs. Annie W., Dover, N. H. 

Baker, Dana W., Exeter, N. H. 

Baker, Henry M., Bow, N. H. 

Baker, Martha A., (Mrs. Walter S.) Concord, N. H. 

Baker, Walter S., Concord, N. H. 

Bancroft, Charles P., Concord, N. H. 

Barney, Ernest A., Canaan, N. H. 

Bartlett, Benjamin T., Derry, N. H. 

Bartlett, John J., Concord, N. H. 

Barton, Jesse M., Newport, N. H. 

Bass, Robert P., Peterborough, N. H. 

Batchelder, Florence J., (Mrs. J. Roland), Pembroke, N. H. 

Batchellor, Albert S., Littleton, N. H. 

Bell, Louis, West Newton, Mass. 

Bennett, Harold H., Portsmouth, N. H. 

Benton, Josiah H., Boston, Mass. 

Bethune, Sallie L. M. (Mrs. Thomas C), Concord, N. H. 

Binet, Maude B., Concord, N. H. 

Blake, Amos J., Fitzwilliam, N. H. 

Blake, Harold H., Concord, N. H. 

Blanchard, Amos, Concord, N. H. 

Blanchard, John S., Alhambra, Cal. 

Brackett, Anna L., Concord, N. H. 

Ill 



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Brennan, James F., Peterborough, N. H. 

Brown, Annie D. (Mrs. Frank E.)> Concord, N. H. 

BrowTi, Edmund H., Penacook, N. H. 

Brown, Elisha R., Dover, N. H. 

Brown, George H., Manchester, N. H. 

Brown, John H., Concord, N. H. 

Browne, George Waldo, Manchester, N. H. 

Burbank, William W., Webster, N. H. 

Burleigh, Alvin, Plymouth, N. H. 

Burnham, Henry E., Manchester, N. H. 

Burroughs, Sherman E., Manchester, N. H. 

Busiel, John T., Laconia, N. H. 

Buxton, Willis G., Penacook, N. H. 

Carpenter, Aretas B., Manchester, N. H. 

Carpenter, Frank P., Manchester, N. H. 

Carpenter, Josiah, Manchester, N. H. 

Carpenter, Philip, New York City. 

Carr, Clarence E., Andovet, N. H. 

Carr, Ella, Andover, N. H. 

Carter, Nathan F., Concord, N. H. 

Carter, Solon A., Concord, N. H. 

Cass, Arthur T., Tilton, N. H. 

Cavis, Harry M., Concord, N. H. 

Chamberlain, Mrs. Nellie P., Concord, N. H. 

Chamberlain, Robert N., Berlin, N. H. 

Chandler, WilHam E., Concord, N. H. 

Chase, Arthur H., Concord, N. H. 

Chase, Charles P., Hanover, N. H. 

Chase, John C, Derry Village, N. H. 

Chase, William M., Concord, N. H. 

Churchill, Winston, Cornish, N. H. 

Cilley, Harry B., Manchester, N. H. 

Clark, A. Chester, Concord, N. H. 

Clarke, Martha C. B. (Mrs. Arthur E.), Manchester, N. H. 

Clifford, Thomas F., FrankHn, N. H. 

Conn, Granville P., Concord, N. H. 

Cook, George, Concord, N. H. 

Corning, Charles R., Concord, N. H. 

Couch, Benjamin W., Concord, N. H. 

Cross, Alvin B., Concord, N. H. 

Cummings, George E., Woodsville, N. H. 

Currier, Mrs. Hannah A., Manchester, N. H. 

Dana, Samuel H., Exeter, N. H. 



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Daniel, Warren F., Franklin, N. H. 

Davis, Mrs. Dora D., Tilton, N. H. 

Day, Roselle M. (Mrs. Harry B.), Brooklyn, N. Y. 

De Merritt, Albert, Durham, N. H. 

De Merritt, Jennie M., Dover, N. H. 

Demond, Fred C, Concord, N. H. 

Denio, Herbert W., Hopkinton, N. H. 

Derby, J. Clare, Concord, N. H. 

Dowst, John, Manchester, N. H. 

Drury, Samuel S., Concord, N. H. 

Dudley, Albertus T., Exeter, N. H. 

Dudley, Anne M. (Mrs. Harry H.), Concord, N. H. 

Dudley, Ariana S., Concord, N. H. 

Dudley, Frances P., (Mrs. Albertus T.), Exeter, N. H. 

Dudley, Harry H., Concord, N. H. 

Durgin, Mrs. Martha E., Concord, N. H. 

Eastman, Edwin G., Exeter, N. H. 

Eastman, John R., Andover, N. H. 

Eastman, Mrs. Mary W., Concord, N. H. 

Elkin, Caroline J. (Mrs. William W.), Concord, N. H. 

Elwyn, Alfred L., Portsmouth, N. H. 

Estabrook, Fred W., Nashua, N. H. 

Evans, Mrs. Pauline L., Concord, N. H. 

Felker, Mary D. (Mrs. Samuel D.), Rochester, N. H. 

Ferguson, Henry, Hartford, Conn. 

Fernald, Geo. A., Winchester, Mass. 

Fernald, Josiah E., Concord, N. H. 

Fiske, William P., Concord, N. H. 

Fletcher, Almira M., Concord, N. H. 

Flint, William W^, Concord, N. H. 

Folson, William H., Exeter, N. H. 

Foote, Charles E., Penacook, N. H. 

Foster, Mrs. Grace E., Concord, N. H. 

Foster, William A., Concord, N. H. 

Foster, WilHam H., Concord, N. H. 

Fowler, Clara M., Boston, Mass. 

Fox, D. Warren, Penacook, N. H. 

Freeman, Edith S., Concord, N. H. 

Freeman, Leverett N., Providence, R. I. 

Frost, Margaret B., Durham, N. H. 

Gallinger, Jacob H., Concord, N. H. 

Gay, George W., Chestnut Hill, Brookline, Mass. 
George, John P., Concord, N. H. 



114 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF THE 



Gile, John M., Hanover, N. H. 

Oilman, Daniel, Exeter, N. H. 

Oilman, Minnie C. (Mrs. Daniel), Exeter, N. H. 

Oooding, Alfred, Portsmouth, N. H. 

Ooodrich, Caroline T. W. (Mrs. James B.), Concord, N. H. 

Ooodrich, James B., Concord, N. H. 

Oraves, Eli E., Penacook, N. H. 

Crimes, James W., Boston, Mass. 

Hackett, Frank W., New Castle, N. H. 

Hackett, Wallace, Portsmouth, N. H. 

Hadley, Geo. P., Goffstown, N. H. 

HaffenrefFer, R. F., Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

Hall, Arthur W., Dover, N. H. 

Hall, Daniel, Dover, N. H. 

Hall, Dwight, Dover, N. H. 

Hall, Frances S. (Mrs. Dwight), Dover, N. H. 

Hall, Harriet J., Manchester, N. H. 

Hall, Sophia D. (Mrs. Daniel), Dover, N. H. 

Hammond, Otis O., Concord, N. H. 

Harriman, Mrs. Jessie B., Concord, N. H. 

Harrington, William F., Manchester, N. H. 

Hazlett, Charles A., Portsmouth, N. H. 

Henry, John H., Lincoln, N. H. 

Hill, Cora H. (Mrs. Edson J.), Concord, N. H. 

Hill, Edson, J., Concord, N. H. 

Hill, Howard F., Concord, N. H. 

Hill, Laura S. (Mrs. Howard F.), Concord, N. H. 

Hill, William W., Concord, N. H. 

Hirst, Edgar C, Concord, N. H. 

Hodgman, Anne H., (Mrs. Burns P.), Concord, N. H. 

Hodgman, Burns P., Concord, N. H. 

Holbrook, Harry S., Manchester, N. H. 

Holden, Adam P., Boston, Mass. 

Holden, Paul R., Penacook, N. H. 

Hollis, Allen, Concord, N. H. 

Hood, William E., Concord, N. H. 

Howard, Alfred F., Portsmouth, N. H. 

Howe, DeWitt C, Concord, N. H. 

Hmnphrey, Mrs. Ida C, Concord, N. H. 

Hunt, Marion H. (Mrs. Woodbury E.), Concord, N. H. 

Hunt, Woodbury E., Concord, N. H. 

Huntress, Harriet L., Concord, N. H. 

Hurd, Eva 0. (Mrs. Clarence I.), Dover, N. H. 



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Jackman, Charles L., Concord, N. H. 

Jackman, Lyman, Concord, N. H. 

Jackson, Thomas M., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Jaques, William W., Little Boar's Head, N. H. 

Jenks, Barton P., Concord, N. H. 

Jewett, Mary R., South Berwick, Me. 

Jewett, Stephen S., Laconia, N. H. 

Jones, Charles C, Concord, N. H. 

Keeler, I. Eugene, Concord, N. H. 

Kelley, John W., Portsmouth, N. H. 

Kent, John F., Concord, N. H. 

Kent, Prentiss INL, Boston, Mass. 

Keyes, Henry- W., Haverhill, N. H. 

Killeen, Mrs. Jessie G., Concord, N. H. 

Kimball, Herbert M., Hopkinton, N. H. 

Kimball, Willis G. C, Concord, N. H. 

Knowlton, John G. W., Exeter, N. H. 

Knox, Charles S., Concord, N. H. 

Ladd, Fred N., Concord, N. H. 

Lamb, Fred W., Manchester, N. H. 

Leach, Edwin G., Frankhn, N. H. 

Leavitt, Ashley D., Concord, N. H. 

Leighton, George B., Dublin, N. H. 

Locke, Arthur H., Portsmouth, N. H. 

Luce, Thomas D., Nashua, N. H. 

Limd, Joseph W., Boston, Mass. 

Lund, Mrs. Lydia F., Concord, N. H. 

Lyford, James 0., Concord, N. H. 

Martin, Francis C, Roxbury, Mass. 

Mathews, Joseph S., Concord, N. H. 

Mattice, Edson H., Penacook, N. H. 

Maynard, Frank, Nashua, N. H. 

McCollester, Sullivan H., Marlborough, N. H. 

McFarland, Annie A., Concord, N. H. 

McFarland, William K., Concord, N. H. 

McMurphy, Jesse G., Derry, N. H. 

Merrill, Louis C, Concord, N. H. 

Merrow, Lyford A., Center Ossipee, N. H. 

Metcalf, Henry H., Concord, N. H. 

Mitchell, John M., Concord, N. H. 

Morrill, Lilla W. (Mrs. Obadiah), Concord, N. H. 

Morris, George F., Lancaster, N. H. 

Morrison, Henry C, Concord, N. H. 



116 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 

Morrison, Mortier L., Peterborough, N. H. 

Moses, William H., Tilton, N. H. 

Musgrove, P'rank A., Hanover, N. H. 

Nichols, Ernest F., Hanover, N. H. 

Niles, Mary, Concord, N. H. 

Niles, WiUiam W., Concord, N. H. 

Northcott, Mrs. Elizabeth A., Concord, N. H. 

Noyes, Harriette, Hampstead, N. H. 

Noyes, Mary B., Chester, N. H. 

Nute, Eugene P., Farmington, N. H. 

Nutter, John P., Concord, N. H. 

Odlin, Herbert W., Concord, N. H. 

Ordway, Mrs. Sarah J., Concord, N. H. 

Owen, Stanton, Laconia, N. H. 

Page, Elwin L., Concord, N. H. 

Parker, Charles S., Concord, N. H. 

Parker, Edward M., Concord, N. H. 

Parker, Samuel S., Farmington, N. H. 

Parker, Walter M., Manchester, N. H. 

Parks, Isabel M., Concord, N. H. 

Parsons, Frank N., Franklin, N. H. 

Patterson, Joab N., Concord, N. H. 

Pearson, Edward N., Concord, N. H. 

Pecker, J. Eastman, Concord, N. H. 

Pender, John, Portsmouth, N. H. 

Pike, E. Bertram, Pike, N. H. 

Pillsbury, Frank J., Concord, N. H. 

Pillsbury, Rosecrans W., Londonderry, N. H. 

Plummer, William A., Laconia, N. H. 

Preston, George C, Henniker, N. H. 

Preston, Harry B., Henniker, N. H. 

Proctor, Frank, Franklin, N. H. 

Quinby, Henry B., Lakeport, N. H. 

Reed, George H., Concord, N. H. 

Remick, Charles G., Concord, N. H. 

Richards, William F., Newport, N. H. 

Riley, Mrs. Anna M. Chandler, Claremont, N. H. 

Robinson, Mrs. Julia A., Derry, N. H. 

Rolfe, Abial W., Penacook, N. H. 

Rolfe, Geo. H.. Concord, N. H. 

Rolfe, Jennie C. (Mrs. Benjamin S.), Concord, N. H. 

Rollins, Frank W., Concord, N. H. 

Rollins, Katherine P. (Mrs. Frank W.), Concord, N. H. 



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Rounds, Sarah E. (Mrs. Holmes B.), Dover, N. H. 

Rowell, Clara E., Franklin, N. H. 

Sanders, Charles H., Penacook, N. H. 

Sanders, Loren A., Concord, N. H. 

Sargeant, Frank W., Manchester, N. H. 

Sawyer, William H., Concord, N. H. 

Scott, Henry K. W., Concord, N. H. 

Scudder, Willard, Concord, N. H. 

Seward, Josiah L., Keene, N. H. 

Shepard, Frank E., Bismarck. N. D. 

Shepard, Mrs. Marion T., Ponkapog, Mass. 

Smith, Emma L. (Mrs. John B.), Hillsborough, N. H. 

Smith, Jeremiah, Cambri(Jge, Mass. 

Smith, John B., Hillsborough, N. H. 

Smith, Jonathan, Clinton, Mass. 

Snow, Sydney B., Concord, N. H. 

Spaulding, WiUiam E., Nashua, N. H. 

Spanhoofd, Edw:ard, Concord, N. H. 

Stark, Annie Me. N. (Mrs. Chas. F. M.), Dunbarton, N. H. 

Stearns, Ezra S., Fitchburg, Mass. 

Stevens, Mrs. Frances C, Concord, N. H. 

Stevens, Margaret F., Concord, N. H. 

Stevens, William L., Concord, N. H. 

Stillings, Ferdinand A., Concord, N. H. 

Streeter, Frank S., Concord, N. H. 

Streeter, LilUan C. (Mrs. Frank S.), Concord, N. H. 

Streeter, Thomas W., Concord, N. H. 

Sullivan, Timothy P., Concord, N. H. 

Sulloway, Alvah W., Franklin Falls, N. H. 

Sulloway, Frank J., Concord, N. H. 

Swart, William D., Nashua, N. H. 

Tennant, James B., Concord, N. H. 

Thayer, Lucius H., Portsmouth, N. H. 

Thayer, William F., Concord, N. H. 

Thayer, William W., Concord, N. H. 

Thompson, Mrs. Matilda S., Concord, N. H. 

Thompson, Willis D., Concord, N. H. 

Thorndike, Effie M., Concord, N. H. 

Thorne, John C, Concord, N. H. 

Thome, Mary G. (Mrs. John C), Concord, N. H. 

Tibbetts, Charles W., Dover, N. H. 

Tibbetts, John Knox, Concord, N. H. 

Tilton, Charles E., Tilton, N. H. 



118 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 

Tilton, George H., Laconia, N. H. 
Todd, Carrie R., Concord, N. H. 
Treadwell, Abbot, Concord, N. H. 
Tucker, Oilman H., New York City. 
Upham, J. Duncan, Claremont, N. H. 
Vannevar, John, Concord, N. H. 
Walker, Charles R., Concord, N. H. 
Walker, Mrs. Helen D., Concord, N. H. 
Walker, Mrs. Mary C. B., Concord, N. H. 
Walker, Reuben E., Concord, N. H. 
Wallace, James B., Canaan, N. H. 
Waterman, Lucius, Hanover, N. H. 
Watson, Irving A., Concord, N. H. 
Webster, John F., Concord, N. H. 
Webster, Kimball, Hudson, N. H. 
Welch, John T., Dover, N. H. 
Wells, Christopher H., Somersworth, N. H. 
Wentworth, Ellen L., Exeter, N. H. 
Wheat, William G., Springfield, Mass. 
Wheeler, Elbert, Nashua, N. H. 
Wheeler, Giles, Concord, N. H. 
Wheelock, Edward, Rochester, N. Y. 
Whitcher, William F., Woodsville, N. H. 
Wliite, Francis B., Concord, N. H. 
Whittemore, Arthur G., Dover, N. H. 
Wilder, Frank J., Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
Wilson, Mary B., Manchester, N. H. 
Woodman, Mrs. Elizabeth F., Concord, N. H. 
Woodman, Susan P., Dover, N. H. 
Woods, H. Maria, Concord, N. H. 
Woodworth, Edward K., Concord, N. H. 
Woodworth, Mrs. Helen W., Concord, N. H. 
Woodworth, Mrs. Mary P., Concord, N. H. 

HONORARY MEMBERS 

Adams, Brig. Gen'l., Charles Francis, LL.D., So. Lincoln, Mass., 1911. 
*Adams, Rev. E. E., D.D., Pennsylvania, 1846. 
*Adams, Franklin George, Topeka, Kan., 1892. 
*Alden, Rev. Timothy, Pennsylvania, 1826. 
*Allen, Rev. WUliam, D.D., Maine, 1865. 

Ames, Emma E. Gibson (Mrs. Nathaniel P.), Medford, Mass., 1881. 

*Decea3ed. 



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*Amory, Hon. Thomas Coffin, A.M., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
♦Andrews, Rev. Israel W., Marietta, Ohio, 1884. 
♦Angell, Henry C, M.D., Massachusetts, 1865. 
*Angier, Rev. Marshall B., Massachusetts, 1864. 
*Baldwin, Christopher C, Massachusetts, 1832. 
*Baldwin, Hon. James F., Massachusetts, 1855. 
♦Ballard, Rev. Edward, A.M., D.D., Maine, 1858. 
♦Bancroft, George, Ph.D., LL.D., New York, 1839. 
♦Baylies, Hon. Francis, Massachusetts, 1831. 
♦Beljame, Prof. U., Paris, France, 1876. 
♦Bell, Luther V., M.D., Massachusetts, 1844. 
♦Bellas, Capt. Henry Hobart, Germantown, Pa., 1894. 
♦Benton, Col. Thomas H., Missouri, 1849. 
♦Bisseli, Edward, Ohio, 1865. 

♦Bissell, George H., A.M., LL.D., New York, 1871. 
♦Boltwood, Lucius M., Massachusetts, 1859. 

Bouton, Christopher Bell, Chicago, 111., 1893. 
♦Bouton, John Bell, A.M., New York, 1865. 
♦Bouton, N. Sherman, Chicago, 111., 1902. 
♦Bowdoin, James, Esq., A.M., Massachusetts, 1831. 
♦Bowen, Francis, A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1850. 
♦Bradley, Israel B., M.D., Maine, 1851. 
♦Bradley, Samuel A., A.M., Maine, 1838. 
♦Broghe, Albert Due de, Paris, France, 1884. 
♦Bryant, John Duncan, Esq., Boston, Mass., 1904. 

Bryce, Rt. Hon. James, D.C.L., LL.D., Washington, D. C, 1911. 

Buddy, Charles R. Esq., Dallas, Texas, 1884. 
♦Butler, Rev. Franklin, Vermont, 1861. 
♦Carter, Nathaniel H., A.M., New York, 1825. 
♦Cass, Hon. Lewis, LL.D., Michigan, 1831. 
♦Chamberiain, Hon. Henry, Three Oaks, Mich., 1902. 
♦Chamberiain, Hon. Mellen, LL.B., LL.D., Boston, Mass., 1887. 
♦Chase, Rt. Rev. Cariton, D.D., Vermont, 1832. 
♦Chester, Joseph L., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.H.S., England, 1872, 
♦Clapp, Hon. William W., Boston, Mass., 1888. 
♦Cliflford, Hon. John H., A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1871. 
♦Coffin, Charles Carleton, A.M., Massachusetts, 1869. 
♦Coffin, Joshua, A.M., Massachusetts, 1833. 
♦Cogswell, Rev. William, D.D., Massachusetts, 1837. 
♦Cogswell, William F., Esq., New York, 1867. 
♦Colburn, Jeremiah, A.M., Massachusetts, 1867. 

Cross, David, LL.D., Manchester, N. H., 1911. 
♦Curtis, George T., LL.B., New York City, 1880. 



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*Danforth, George F., Esq., New York, 1867. 
*Davies, Charles S., LL.D., Maine, 1850. 
*Davis, Hon. John, LL.D., Massachusetts, 1831. 
*Day, Hon. Thomas, Connecticut, 1840. 
*Dix, Gen. John A., New York, 1849. 
*Drake, Samuel Gardner, Massachusetts, 1833. 
*Durrie, Daniel S., A.M., Wisconsin, 1867. 
♦Eastman, Philip, A.M., Maine, 1861. 
*Eastman, Col. Seth, United States Army, 1861. 
*Edmunds, Hon. James M., Washington, D. C, 1866. 
♦Edwards, Rev. Bela B., D.D., Massachusetts, 1839. 
*Ela, Richard, LL.B., Washington, D. C, 1852. 
*Elton, Rev. Romeo, A.M., D.D., Rhode Island, 1846. 

Elwyn, Rev. Alfred L., Pennsylvania, 1873. 
*Emerson, Rev. Ralph, D.D., Massachusetts, 1838. 
*Emery, Hon. Nicholas, A.M., LL.D., Maine, 1850. 
*Felt, Rev. Joseph B., A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts. 1841. 
*Fessenden, Hon. William Pitt, LL.D., Maine, 1851. 
*Fisk, Robert F., A.M., LL.B., Massachusetts, 1856. 
*Fitz, Rev. Daniel, D.D., Massachusetts, 1860. 
♦Fletcher, Hon. Richard, A.M., L.L.D., Massachusetts, 1840. 
*Folsom, George, A.M., LL.D., New York, 1840. 
♦Fence, Benjamin B., A.M., Washington, D. C, 1843. 

French, Daniel Chester, A.M., New York City, 1911. 
♦Gihnan, Daniel Coit, A.M., LL.D., Baltimore, Md., 1880. 
♦Gootlrich, Charles B., A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1872. 
♦Gookin, John W., Maine, 1850. 

Green, Samuel A., M.D., A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1867. 
♦Greene, Hon. Albert G., Rhode Island, 1863. 
♦Haines, Hon. WUliam P., LL.D., Maine, 1861. 
♦Hall, Rev. Edwin, D.D., Connecticut, 1851. 
♦Harris, Rev. Thaddeus M., D.D., Massachusetts, 1826. 
♦Hawthorne, Nathaniel, A.M., Massachusetts, 1849. 
♦Hemso, Count Jacob Graberg de. Consul General of Sweden, at Florence, 

Italy, 1840. 
♦Holden, Luther L., Massachusetts, 1872. 
♦Holmes, Abiel, D.D., LL.D., S.T.D., Massachusetts, 1826. 

Holmes, WiUiam F., Gilmer, Texas, 1884. 

♦Hopkuis, Mark, S.T.D., A.M., M.D., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1856. 
♦Hotclikiss, William H., M.D., New Haven, Conn., 1884. 
♦Hough, Hon. Franklin B., M.D., LL.D., New York City, 1883. 

Howard, Cecil Hamden Cutts, Beebe, Ark., 1892. 



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Hoyt, Col. Albert H., A.M., Massachusetts, 1867. 

Hubbard, Col. Adolphus S., San Francisco, Cal., 1894. 
♦Hubbard, Oliver P., LL.D., A.M., M.D., New York City, 1889. 
♦Humphrey, Samuel F., Maine, 1872. 
*Jackson, Hon. Francis, Massachusetts, 1826. 
*Jewett, Prof. Charles C, A.M., Massachusetts, 1867. 
♦Jordan, John, Jr., Pennsylvania, 1866. 

Jusserand, Hon. Jean Jules, LL.D., Washington, D. C, 1911. 
*Kent, Hon. Edward, LL.D., Maine, 1854. 
*Kidder, Frederick, Esq., Massachusetts, 1867. 

KimbaU, David P., Boston, Mass., 1909. 
♦Kingsley, Prof. James L., A.M., LL.D., Connecticut, 1837. 
*Lamb, Mrs. Martha J., New York City, 1888. 
*Lockwood, Legrand, New York, 1863. 

Low, Abiel A., New York, 1871. 
*Ludwig, Herman E., J.U.D., New York, 1846. 

Lund, Prof. Troels, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1912. 
*McCauley, William, Salem, Va., 1881. 
*McClure, Rev. William, D.D., England, 1873. 
*Marden, Hon. George A., A.M., Massachusetts, 1872. 

Marshall, Jonathan, A.M., LL.B., New York City, 1880. 
*Mellen, Hon. Prentiss, LL.B., Maine, 1838. 

Mickley, Joseph J., Esq., Pennsylvania, 1866. 
*Moore, Frank, A.M., New York, 1867. 
*Moore, George Henry, LL.D., New York, 1867. 
*Morse, Prof. S. F. B., LL.D., New York, 1851. 

Morton, Hon. Levi P., LL.D., New York, 1871. 
♦Nichols, Rev. Icabod, D.D., Maine, 1850. 
*Noyes, Hon. Edward F., LL.B., LL.D., Ohio, 1871. 
♦Parker, Henry M., A.M., LL.B., Massachusetts, 1853. 
♦Parker, James, Massachusetts, 1867. 
♦Parker, John A., New York, 1871. 
♦Parsons, Usher, A.M., M.D., Rhode Island, 1867. 
♦Patterson, Hon. George W., New York, 1868. 
♦Patterson, Peter, Ontario, 1871. 
♦Pickering, Hon. John, Massachusetts, 1835. 
♦Plumer, Hon. William, LL.B., Massachusetts, 1855. 
♦Poor, Hon. John A., A.M., Maine, 1868. 

Porter, Henry Kirk, Pittsburg, Pa., 1903. 
♦Potter, Mrs. Francis McNeil, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1881. 
♦Preble, Rear Admiral George H., Brookline, Mass., 1880. 
♦Prescott, WilHam H., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1839. 
♦Prime, WiUiam C, LL.D., New York City, 1881. 



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Proctor, Miss Edna Dean, Framingham, Mass., 1912. 
*Quint, Rev. Alonzo H., D.D., A.M., Massachusetts, 1856. 
♦Rafn, C. C, Ph.D., J.U.D., F.S.A., F.R.Q.S., R.S.N.A., Denmark, 1828. 
♦Richardson, Hon.William A., A.M., LL.B., LL.D., Washington, D.C., 1886. 
*Sabine, Lorenzo, A.M., Massachusetts, 1873. 

Sainsbury, W. Noel, London, England, 1889. 
*Savage, Hon. James, Massachusetts, 1852. 
♦Sawyer, Nathaniel, A.M., Ohio, 1851. 
*Sawyer, Nathaniel J., M.D., Frankfort, Ky., 1884. 
*Shattuck , Lemuel, Esq., Massachusetts, 1831. 
*Sibley, Rev. John L., A.M., Massachusetts, 1863. 
*Silliman, Benjamin, Jr., A.M., M.D., LL.D., Connecticut, 1846. 
*Sleeper, John S., Massachusetts, 1850. 
*Smith, Hon. Cyrus P., New York, 1871. 
*Smith, Hon. F. O. J., Maine, 1868. 

Snow, Prof. Marshall S., A.M., LL.D., St. Louis, Mo., 1894. 
*Sparks, Hon. Jared, A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1850. 
*Spence, Hon. Carroll, Maryland, 1856. 
♦Staples, Hon. William R., A.M., LL.D., Rhode Island, 1831. 
♦Stedman, Edmund Clarence, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D., New York City, 1885. 
♦Stephens, B. F., A.M., L.H.D., London, Eng., 1889. 
♦Stone, William Leete, A.M., LL.B., New York, 1866. 
♦Tarbox, Rev. Increase N., D.D., S.T.D., Massachusetts, 1872. 
♦Thacher, James, A.M., M.D., Massachusetts, 1832. 
♦Thornton, John Wingate, A.M., LL.B., Massachusetts, 1843. 
♦Trask, William B., A.M., Massachusetts, 1867. 

Tuck, Hon. Edward, Paris, France, 1909. 

Tucker, Rev. William J., D.D., LL.D., Hanover, N. H. 
♦Tuttle, Charles W., A.M., Ph.D., Boston, Mass., 1880. 
♦Upham, Rev. Charles W., A.M., Salem, Massachusetts, 1835. 
♦Upham, Francis W., LL.D., New York, 1865. 
♦Upham, Rev. Thomas C, A.M., LL.D., D.D., Maine, 1831. 
♦Vaux, William S., Pennsylvania, 1867. 
♦Walker, Hon. Charles I., Michigan, 1865. 

Walker, Nathaniel U., Boston, Mass., 1884. 
♦Washburn, William B., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1862. 
♦Waterman, Joshua, W. Michigan, 1865. 
♦Waterman, Thomas, Massachusetts, 1831. 
♦Waters, Hon. Joseph Gilbert, Esq., A.M., Massachusetts, 1831. 

Watson, Alexander T., M.D., Dresden, Saxony, 1876. 
♦Webster, Hon. Daniel, LL.D., Massachusetts, 1825. 
♦Webster, Prof. N. B., Norfolk, Va., 1880. 



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nVebster, Sidney, A.M., New York, 1871. 

*Wentworth, John, A.M., LL.D., Chicago, HI., 1884. 

♦Wilder, Hon. Marshall P., Ph.D., L.L.D., Massachusetts, 1871. 

Willey, Capt. William Lithgow, Boston, Mass., 1894. 
♦Willis, WiUiam, A.M., LL.D., Maine, 1856. 

Winslow, Rev. William Copley, D.D., Boston, Mass., 1894. 
*Winthrop, Robert C, A.M., L.L.D., Boston, Mass., 1881. 

Woods, Joseph W., Massachusetts, 1869. 

LIFE MEMBERS 

Bass, Mrs. Clara Foster, Peterborough, N. H. 

Blodgett, Anna G., Franklin, N. H. 

Cochrane, Warren R., Antrim, N. H. 

Colby, Fred Myron, Warner, N. H. 

Cummings, Charles H., Weirs, N. H. 

Eastman, Mary C, Concord, N. H. 

Eastman, Samuel C, Concord, N. H. 

French, Amos Tuck, Chester, N. H. 

Gerrish, Frank L., Boscawen, N. H. 

Hallett, Mrs. Frances P., Concord, N. H. 

Hobbs, Mrs. Armenia W., Concord, N. H. 

Kimball, Benjamin A., Concord, N. H. 

Kimball, Charlotte G. (Mrs. Henry A.), Concord, N. H. 

Kimball, George M., Concord, N. H. 

Kimball, Henry A., Concord, N. H. 

Kimball, John, Concord, N. H. 

Kimball, Myra T. (Mrs. Benjamin A.), Concord, N. H. 

Merrill, Adelaide L., Concord, N. H. 

Merrill, Elijah H., San Francisco, Cal. 

Schoolcraft, Charles C, Concord, N. H. 

Smyth, Mrs. Marion C, Manchester, N. H. 

Stevens, Ellen T. (Mrs. Henry W.), Concord, N. H. 

Stevens, Henry W., Concord, N. H. 

Stevens, J. Elizabeth Hoyt (Mrs. George W.), Concord, N. H. 

Tappan, Eva March, Worcester, Mass. 

Tuck, Julia Stell (Mrs. Edward), Paris, France. 

Varick, William R., Manchester, N. H. 

White, Mrs. Armenia S., Concord, N. H. 

White, Benjamin C, Concord, N. H. 

White, Mabel C. (Mrs. Benjamin C), Concord, N. H. 

Worcester, Franklin, Hollis, N. H. 



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MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 



Resident Members 

Note — Resident members were originally limited in number and to citizens of the state. 
Subsequently both limitations were removed, and the name of the class was changed to 
active members. 

This is a hst of persons who have been resident or active members of the Society, but 
have ceased to be so, by death or otherwise. 



Qualified according to the Constitution of the Society, 
this mark * is aflSxed were original members. 



Those to which 



Abbot.Benjamin * 
Abbot, Edward Augustus 
Abbot, Francis L. 
Abbot, Samuel 
Abbott, Abiel 
Abbott, Henry 
Abbott, Joseph B. 
Abbott, Joseph C. 
Abbott, William P. 
Achard, H. J. 
Adams, Daniel 
Adams, Ebenezer * 
Adams, Nathaniel * 
Aiken, Charles A. 
Aiken, Edward 
Alden, Lucius 
Allen, W. H. H. 
Amsden, Charles H. 
Atherton, Charles G. 
Atherton, Charles H. 
Atherton, Henry B. 
AveriU, Clinton S. 
Ayer, Franklin D. 
Ayer, James 
Badger, William 
Bailey, WiUiam H. H. 
BaUey, W. W. 
Baker, Nathaniel B. 
Balcom, George L. 
Ballard, John 



Bancroft, Jesse P. 
Barker, David, Jr.* 
Barnard, Daniel 
Barnard, William M. 
Barrett, William 
Barron, John V. 
Barry, John E. 
Barstow, Z. S. 
Barter, Lewis W. 
Bartlett, Mrs. Caroline B. 
Bartlett, Charles Henry 
Bartlett, Greenleaf C. 
Bartlett, Ichabod * 
Bartlett, James * 
Bartlett, James W. 
Bartlett, Richard * 
Bartlett, William Henry 
Bartlett, WilUam K, 
Bartley, Joseph D. 
Beane, S. C. 
Bedel, John 
Beede, George F. 
Belknap, Horatio G. 
Bell, Charles H. 
Bell, Mrs. Cora K. 
Bell, John J. 
Bell, Louis 
Bell, Mrs. Mary E. 
Bell, Samuel Dana 
BeU, Samuel N. 



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Bingham, G. W. 
Bingham, Harry 
Bisbee, Marvin D. 
Bixby, A. H. 
Blair, Henry W. 
Blaisdell, Daniel 
Blake, Mrs. Charlotte A. 
Bodwell, A. E. 
Bouton, Nathaniel 
Bradley, Arthur C. 
Bradley, Moses Hazen 
Bradley, Richard 
Brewster, Charles W. 
Briggs, William S. 
Brown, D. Arthur 
Brown, John A. 
Brown, John F. 
Brown, Samuel G. 
Buckshorn, Louis H. 
Burleigh, George W. 
Burleigh, John A. 
Burleigh, Micajah C. 
Burroughs, Charles* 
Burrows, Joseph 
Burt, Federal 
Busiel, Charles A. 
Butterfield, John Ware 
Campbell, A. H. 
Carpenter, Alonzo P. 
Carpenter, Charles H. 
Carpenter, Mrs. Julia R. 
Carrigain, Philip 
Carter, Buel C. 
Carter, William G. 
Cartland, Charles S. 
Chadwick, Peter * 
Chamberlain, Horace E. 
Chamberlain, Levi 
Chandler, Abiel 
Chandler, George B. 
Chandler, George Henry 
Chase, Francis R. 



Chase, Henry Bright 

Cheeney, T. B. 

Chesley, James G. 

Churchill, Frank C. 

Chutter, F. G. 

Cilley, Bradbury L. 

Clapp, J. E. 

Clark, William 

Clarke, John B. 

Cleaves, George P. 

ClifiFord, Cornelius E. 

Clough, Lucien B. 

Coffin, Samuel 

Cogswell, Elliott C. 

Cogswell, Francis 

Cogswell, Leander W. 

Cogswell, Parsons Brainard 

Cogswell, William 

Coit, J. Milner 

Colby, Ira 

Colby, James F. 

Conner, Charles G. 

Cook, Howard M. 

Copeland, Wilham I. 

Corning, Benjamin H. 

Cones, Samuel E. 

Crane, Cephas B. 

Cressey, Mrs. Annette M. R. 

Crosby, Dixi 

Crosby, Jaazaniah 

Cross, David 

Cross, George N. 

Cruft, George T. 

Cummings, Ebenezer E. 

Cummings, Horace S. 

Currier, David 

Ciu-rier, Moody 

Cutter, Charles William * 

Dana, James Freeman 

Dana, Sylvester 

Danforth, Charles C. 

Davies, Thomas J., Jr. 



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Davis, Josiah G. 
Dearborn, C. V. 
Dearborn, John J. 
DeNormandie, James 
Dinsmoor, Samuel 
Dodge, Isaac B. 
Dow, Edward 
Dow, Joseph 
Downing, Lewis, Jr. 
Downs, Charles A. 
Drew, George W. 
Durant, E. J. 
Eames, James H. 
Eastman, Albert L. 
Eastman, Charles F. 
Eastman, Cyrus 
Eastman, Edson Cummings 
Eastman, Herbert W. 
Eastman, Jonathan 
Eastman, Moses 
Eastman, Philip 
Eaton, Mrs. Harriet N. 
Edgerly, Frank G. 
Edgerly, James A. 
Elkins, Jeremiah 
ElUott, John H. 
Elwyn, John 
Emerson, Moses R. 
Emery, George E. 
Farmer, John * 
Farr, Charles A. 
Farr, Evarts W. 
Farwell, John L. 
Fassett, J. H. 
Faulkner, C. S. 
Faulkner, Francis A. 
Faulkner, Francis C. 
Fergusson, W. A. 
Fisk, Francis N. 
Fitts, James H. 
Fletcher, Arthur 
Fletcher, Samuel 



Fogg, George Gilman 
Foster, John W. 
Foster, WilUam L. 
Fowler, Asa 
Fowler, Trueworthy L. 
Fox, Charles J. 
Freeman, Asa * 
French, John C. 
Frink, J. S. H. 
Frisbie, F. Senter 
Frye, John E. 
Gage, Charles P. 
Gage, Isaac K. 
Gale, Charles C. P. 
Gerould, Edward P. 
Gerrish, Enoch 
Gilman, Edward H. 
Gilman, Virgil C. 
Gilmore, George C. 
Gilmore, Joseph A. 
Goodenough, John C. 
Goodrich, C. B. 
Goodwin, Ichabod 
Goodwin, WilUam F. 
Gould, Sylvester C. 
Gove, Mrs. Jesse A. 
Gove, Jesse A. 
Gray, George F. 
Green, S. D. 
Greene, J. Alonzo 
GrifBn, Simon G. 
Grover, Benjamin 
Hackett, William H. 
Hackett, WilHam H. Y. 
Haddock, Charles B. * 
Hadley, Amos 
Hale, Charles S. 
Hale, Salma 
Hale, Samuel W. 
Hall, Joshua G. 
HaU, Marshall P. 
Ham, John R. 



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Hammond, Isaac W. 
Hammond, Mrs. Martha W. 
Handerson, Phineas 
Hardy, Charles C. 
Harmon, Charles L. 
Harris, Amanda B. 
Harris, John A. 
Hartshorn, F. G. 
Harv'ey, Matthew 
Hatch, John 
Hatch, Thomas E. 
Haven, Alfred W. 
Haven, Nathaniel A., Jr.* 
Hazelton, John B. 
Hazen, Henry A. 
Head, Xatt 
Henrj% Hugh 
Herbert, Alma J. 
Hildreth, Hosea * 
Hildreth, H. A. 
Hill, Mrs. EUa H. J. 
Hill, Isaac 
Hill, Isaac Andrew 
Hm, Joseph C. A. 
Hitchcock, C. H. 
Hodgdon, Mrs. Julia A. 
Hoit, Enos 
Holden, FarweU P. 
Holman, Sullivan 
Hubbard, Henry 
Humphrey, Moses 
Hunt, Nathan Parker 
Hutchins, Abel 
Hutchins, StiUson 
Jackson, J. R. 
Jenks, George E. 
Jewett, William R. 
Jones, John F. 
Jones, William P. 
Jordan, Chester B. 
Kelley, John * 
Kent, George * 



Kent, Henry O. 

Kent, Wilham A. 

Ketchum, Silas 

Kidder, Joseph 

Killeen, James M. 

Kimball, E. P. 

Kimball, J. R. 

Kimball, Mary 

Kimball, Samuel S. 

Knowlton, Edward L. 

Ladd, Alexander * 

Ladd, Alexander H.* 

Ladd, Fletcher 

Ladd, Seneca A. 

Ladd, W. S. 

Lamberton, James M. 

Langdon, Francis E. 

Langdon, Samuel 

Lathrop, M. C. 

Lawrence, George W. 

Leonard, Le\'i W. 

Linehan, John C. 

Little, George P. 

Little, William 

Livermore, Abiel A. 

Long, Mrs. J. C. 

Long, Moses 

Lord, John K. 

Lord, Nathan 

Lj-ford, Stephen C. 

McChntock, John N. 

McCollester, Mrs. EHzabeth E. R. 

McDufBe, Franklin 

McFarland, Andrew 

McFarland, Asa 

McFarland, Henry 

Mack, Robert C. 

McQuesten, E. F. 

Mahaney, J. F. 

Marcy, Daniel 

Marshall, Anson S. 

Marston, Gilman 



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DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 



Martin, Noah 
Mason, Jeremiah * 
Mason, John Edwin 
Mathes, A. O. 
Means, Charles T. 
Merriam, J. W. 
Merrill, Joseph W. 
Meserve, Arthur L. 
Miller, Frank W. 
Miller, James 
Mitchell, Stephen * 
Mitchell, William H. 
Moore, Jacob Bailey * 
Morrill, Luther S. 
Morrison, Charles R. 
Morrison, Leonard A. 
Morrison, W. H. 
Moses, George H. 
Mugridge, John Y. 
Murkland, Charles S. 
Murray, George W. 
Muzzey, Reuben Dimond 
Nesmith, Annie 
Nesmith, George W. 
Noyes, Daniel J. 
Noyes, John W. 
Noyes, Parker * 
Nutter, Eliphalet S. 
Odell, Lory 
Odlin, James E. 
Odlin, Woodbridge 
Olcoutt, George 
OUver, Daniel 
Ordway, John C. 
Ordway, Nehemiah G. 
Palmer, Haven 
Parker, Edward H. 
Parker, Edward P. 
Parker, Joel 
Parker, Nathan * 
Parsons, E. G. 
Pattee, Rufus E. 



Patterson, James W. 
Peabody, Andrew P. 
Peabody, Leonard W. 
Peabody, OUver W. B.* 
Pearson, John H. 
Peaslee, Charles H. 
Peaslee, Edmund R. 
Pecker, Robert Eastman 
Peirce, Andrew * 
Perkins, Susan G. 
Perry, John T. 
Pert, L. B. 

Philbrook, Charles F. B. 
Pickering, Charles A. 
Pickering, C. W. 
Pickering, John J. 
Pierce, Franklin 
Pierce, Joshua W. 
Pike, Austin F. 
Pike, Edwin G. 
Pillsbury, George A. 
Pillsbury, Oliver 
Pillsbury, Parker 
Pinkliam, Joseph 
Plumer, William * 
Plumer, William, Jr.* 
Porter, Mrs. Alice R. 
Porter, Howard L. 
Porter, Royal H. 
Potter, Chandler Eastman 
Pratt, Myron J. 
Pray, Thomas J. W. 
Prentiss, John 
Prescott, Abraham J. 
Prescott, Addison 
Prescott, Benjamin F. 
Prescott, WilUam 
Proctor, John 
Punchard, George 
Putnam, Israel W.* 
Quimby, E. T. 
Quint, Alonzo H. 



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Randlett, James E. 
Reding, John R. 
Renouf, Edward P. 
Richards, Dexter 
Richardson, William M. 
Rix, John M. 
Roberts, Daniel C. 
Robinson, Allan H. 
Robinson, Henry 
Rollins, William H. 
Rounds, Charles C. 
Roy, George C. 
Runnels, Moses T. 
Rust, R. S. 
Ryder, E. S. 
Sanborn, Dyer H. 
Sanborn, Edwin D. 
Sargeant, Cyrus 
Sargent, Charles W. 
Sargent, Jonathan Everett 
Sargent, Mrs. J. E. 
Savage, Thomas 
Savage, W. T. 
Sawyer, Charles H. 
Sawyer, Edward 
Sawyer, Henry E. 
Sawyer, Joseph 
Scales, John 

Scbutz, Mrs. Elizabeth P, 
Secomb, Daniel F. 
Seton, Mrs. A. M. Foster 
Seton, William Henry 
Shapley, J. Hamilton 
Shirley, John M. 
Shurtleff, R. 
Silsby, Arthur W. 
Silsby George H. H. 
Smith, Albert 
Smith, Asa D. 
Smith, Eli B. 
Smith, George Warren 
Smith, Isaac W. 



Smith, Jeremiali * 

Smith, William * 

Smyth, Frederick 

Spalding, Edward 

Spalding, Edward H. 

Spalding, George B. 

Spalding, Isaac 

Sparhawk, Samuel 

Spofford, C. B. 

Stackpole, Paul A. 

Staniels, Rufus P. 

Stark, William 

Stearns, Eben S. 

Stearns, Onslow 

Steele, John H. 

Stevens, Lyman D. 

Stevens, Samuel H. 

Stevens, William S. 

Stewart, Charles F. 

Stickney, J. A. 

Stone, Benjamin P. 

Tappan, Mrs. Alniira Rice 

Tappan, Charles L. 

Ten Broeck, Petrus Stuyvesant 

Tenney, Jonathan 

Tenney, Richard P. J. 

Thomas, Moses G. 

Thompson, Andrew J. 

Todd, William C. 

Towle, Ebenezer Sanborn 

Towne, W'illiam B. 

Tredick, Titus Salter 

Tuck, Amos 

Tucker, W. Howard 

Tufts, Asa Alford 

Tufts, Charles A. 

Tutherly, William 

Twitchell, Amos 

Twitchell, A. S. 

Twitchell, George B. 

Tyler, Bennett * 

Tyler, John E. 



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Upham, James 
Upliam, Joseph B. 
Upham, Nathaniel Gookin 
Upham, Timothy * 
Vaughaii, Orsino A. J. 
Varney, John R. 
Wadleigh, George 
Waite, Albert S. 
Waldron, Richard Russell 
Walker, Abiel 
Walker, Arthur W. 
Walker, Mrs. EUzabeth L. 
Walker, Gustavus 
Walker, Isaac 
Walker, J. Albert 
Walker, Joseph Burbeen 
Walker, Lyman B. 
Warren, Benjamin S. 
Weare, John M. 
Webster, Claudius B. 
Webster, Gideon 
Webster, Horace 
Webster, Stephen Peabody 
Weeks, James W. 
Weeks, John W. 
Wells, John S. 
Wentworth, Mark H. 



Wheat, A. F. 
Wheeler, Samuel M. 
Wliite, John A. 
White, Nathaniel 
White, William O. 
Whitman, G. P. 
Whitman, Zachariah G. 
Wliittemore, B. B. 
Wiley, Frederick L. 
Wilkins, Elijah R. 
Williams, Jared W. 
Wilson, James 
Wingate, Joseph C. A. 
Wood, Henry 
Woodbury, Augustus 
Woodbury, Levi * 
Woodbury, Peter P. 
Woodman, Charles W. 
Woodman, John J. 
Woods, Andrew S. 
Woodworth, Albert B. 
Worcester, George Albert 
Worcester, Samuel F. 
Worth, Edmund 
Yeaton, William 
Young, Andrew H. 
Young, John K. 



CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 

*Allen, Francis Olcott, Philadelphia, Pa., 1897. 
♦Barrows, Rev. Charles D., D.D., Lowell, Mass., 1878. 
*Belknap, Rear Admr. George E., Pensacola, Fla., 1879. 

Boyd, Francis, Boston, Mass., 1883. 

Briggs, Lloyd Vernon, M.D., Boston, Mass., 1901. 
♦Brown, Gen. John M., Portland, Me., 1879. 

Burton, George D., Boston, Mass., 1893. 
*Butterfield, Henry L., M.D., Waupun, Wis., 1877. 

Butterfield, Jonathan Ware, LL.B., Topeka, Kan., 1888. 
*Cameron, Hon Angus, La Crosse, Wis., 1879. 
*Cate, Miss Eliza J., Northampton, Mass., 1880. 

Cilley, Mrs. Jacob G., Cambridge, Mass., 1883. 



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Cilley, Gen. Jonathan P., Rockland, Me., 1877. 
*Crump, William C, New London, Conn., 1879. 

Cutter, William R., Woburn, Mass., 1882. 
*Dana, Hon. Edmund L., Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1879. 
*Darling, Gen. Charles W., Oneida, N. Y., 1885. 
*Dean, John Ward, A.M., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
*Dinsnioor, James, Esq., Sterling, 111., 1893. 

Dinsmore, WilHam, New York City, 1881. 

Eastman, Dr. Edmund T., Boston, Mass., 1882. 
*Elliott, George M., Lowell, Mass., 1879. 

*Ellis, Rev. George E., A.M., D.D., LL.D., Boston, Mass., 1879. 
*Elwell, Hon. Edward H., Portland, Me., 1888. 
*Emery, George E., Lynn, Mass., 1882. 

Emmons, John L., Boston, Mass., 1882. 

♦Everett, Hon. Edward, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D., Boston, Mass., 1827. 
*Fearing, Hon. Albert, Hingham, Mass., 1874. 

Fogg, Mrs. Jennie Bouton, Manchester, N. H., 1890. 
*Fogg, Col. William P., Roselle, N. J., 1878. 
*Folsom, Capt. Albert A., Boston, Mass., 1887. 
*Fox, Gustavus V., Lowell, Mass., 1876. 
*Gibson, Rev. Elvira E., Barre, Mass., 1882. 

Gilman, Rev. Bradley, Canton, Mass., 1893. 
*Gilman, John T., M.D., Portland, Me., 1881. 
*GUdden, Lt., Col. John M., Newcastle, Me., 1897. 

Goodell, Abner C, Salem, Mass., 1881. 
*Gordon, Capt., George A., Somerville, Mass., 1878. 

Greenough, Charles P., Boston, Mass., 1880. 
*Hale, George S., A.M., Boston, Mass., 1881. 
*Harvey, Hon. Peter, A.M., Boston, Mass., 1875. 
♦Haskell, Edwin B., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
♦Haynes, Prof. Henry W., A.M., Boston, Mass., 1880. 
*Hazen, Rev. Henry A., D.D., Auburndale, Mass., 1890. 
*Hill, Horatio, Chicago, 111., 1885. 

*Hobart, Brig. Gen. Harrison C, Milwaukee, Wis., 1887. 
*Huguet-Latour, Maj. L. A., Montreal, Canada, 1881. 
♦Hutchinson, Charles W., Utica, N. Y., 1876. 
♦Jameson, Rev. Ephraim O., Millis, Mass., 1886. 
♦Jenness, John S., New York City, 1875. 
♦Ketchum, Rev. Silas, Maplewood, Mass., 1876. 
♦Kingsley, William L., New Haven, Ct., 1874. 
♦Le Bosquet, Rev. John, Southville, Mass., 1884. 
♦Lincoln, Hon. Enoch, A.M., Fryeburg, Me., 1827. 



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Littlefield, George E., Boston, Mass., 1888. 

McCliutock, John M., Boston, Mass., 1893. 

McMurphy, Rev. Jesse G., Derry, N. H., 1894. 

Mason, John Edwin, M.D., Washington, D. C, 1888. 

Mason, Robert M., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
♦Merrill, Hon. Samuel, Des Moines, la., 1882. 
*Parsons, Calvin, Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1879. 
*Peabody, Hon. Charles A., New York City, 1875. 
*Perry, John S., Cincinnati, O., 1878. 
*Pierce, Col. Fred C, Rockford, 111., 1885. 
*Poore, Benjamin Perley, Newburyport, Mass., 1879. 

Porter, Rev. Edward G., A.M., Lexington, Mass., 1882. 
*Prescott, Addison, Topeka, Kan., 1881. 
*Prescott, Hon. John H., Salina, Kan., 1882. 
*Quiney, Edmund, A.M., Dedham, Mass., 1874. 

Raikes, George A.. F.S.A., F.S.S., F.R.S.L., F.R.H.S., London, Eng., 1887. 

Richards, Hetta M. Hervey (Mrs. Pierre E.), London, Eng., 1890. 
*Rollins, Daniel, Boston, Mass., 1883. 
♦Rollins, Edward A., A.M., Philadelphia, Pa., 1879. 

Sanborn, Franklin B., Concord, Mass., 1899. 
*Sandham, Alfred, Toronto, Canada, 1875. 
*Savage, James W., Omaha, Neb., 1875. 

Seward, Rev. Josiah L., Keene, N. H., 1881. 
*Slafter, Rev. Edmund F., A.M., D.D., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
*Spalding, Rev. Samuel J., D.D., Newburyport, Mass., 1875. 

Stearns, Charles S., Charlestown, Mass., 1878. 

Stevens, Herman Weed, A.M., Brookline, Mass., 1897. 
*Stone, Eben F., A.M., LL.B., Newburyport, Mass., 1879. 

Swain, Hon. Charles R., Boston, Mass., 1879. 
♦Thatcher, Rear Admr. Henry K., Winchester, Mass., 1875. 
♦Tucker, Ichabod, A.M., Salem, Mass., 1827. 
♦Tucker, Hon. William W., A.M., Boston, Mass., 1883. 
♦Tuttle, Charles W., A.M., Ph.D., Boston, Mass., 1874. 

Wadleigh, Henry W., Boston, Mass., 1877. 
♦Warner, Hon. William F., Waverly, N. Y., 1881. 

Wells, Frederic P., Newbury, Vt., 1902. 
♦Wentworth, Hon. John, A.M., LL.D., Cliicago, Dl., 1879. 
♦Whitmore, William H., A.M., Boston, Mass., 1889. 
♦Witherow, Rev. Thomas, D.D., Londonderry, Ire., 1883, 
♦Woodbury, Rev. Augustus, Providence, R. I., 1875. 
♦Woodbury, Hon. Charles Levi, Boston, Mass., 1876. 
♦Woodward, Royal, Albany, N. Y., 1880. 
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